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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Toaster all over
Keywords: Toasters in Used ads
Message-ID: <2434@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>
Date: 27 Dec 90 08:01:01 GMT
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In <118@maxx.UUCP>, tyager@maxx.UUCP (Tom Yager) writes:
>In article <2428@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca>, lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips) writes:
>> What's the big deal? They announced it and showed it and announced it and
>> showed it. Then for good measure, they repeated that a few times. When they
>> got tired of that, they decided to say "We don't know when it will be ready",
>> and "We haven't officially announced it yet".Nothing bad being said about them
>> at all, unless you consider that the Toaster's position of vapourware set
>> records to be particularly bad.
>> -larry
>> | \X/    lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca -or- uunet!van-bc!lpami!lphillips |
>
>Give them some slack. That a company the size of NewTek could EVER manage
>to release a product like the Toaster is amazing. That any company of ANY
>size could manage it at $1595 is astounding. Those of us who have our
>Toasters don't care how long it took; it was worth the wait.

Hey... read my posting again. I said there was nothing bad being said, and I
meant it. Yes, it is an amazing feat, and I don't see anything particularly
wrong with the time frame, considering the complexity of the device, the
problems they had along the way etc. You can't change historical fact though,
and the fact is that NewTek announced the product LONG before they shipped it.
Vapourware is vapourware, regardless of the reasons why or the niftyness of the
product.

 The folks I don't give any slack to are those that try to rewrite history by
saying things like "They didn't announce it until recently."


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