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From: Adam.Frix@p2.f200.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Time for Apple to move on from Mac
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Date: 12 Feb 91 16:57:06 GMT
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peirce@outpost.UUCP (Michael Peirce) writes:

MP> Right. Just dump on all those people who have 68000 class Macintoshes. 
MP> 
MP> Remember, their are lots more 68000 based machines out there 
MP> than Mac II class machines. The Classic is selling very well 
MP> and so this situation isn't going to change any time soon. 

Nononononono.  I didn't say dump on the 68000 and 020 users out there.  My idea
was that Apple look around, take note of some of the better ideas in computing
that have become available, and start working on a post-Mac that isn't tied
so tightly to the days of 1986.  Simultaneously, Apple can continue to support
(and improve the lives of) all those who own lower end and older machines. 
Of course, the post-Mac, to be hugely successful, would have some complex but
invisible-to-the-user way of running the current base of Mac software, all the
way down to copy-protected games.  This would give a buyer of such a machine
two machines in one, and would give him time to transfer the way he works over
to the new system--software, etc.

I mean, Apple _is_ capable of walking and chewing gum at the same time, right?

MP> (Sorry, but I just get so tired of hearing about how I should 
MP> switch to Amiga/Next/whatever...)

Sorry, but I just get so tired of Apple and its fervent evangelists putting
their heads in the sand and refusing to acknowledge anything that's happening
in the outside world.  I don't think you should get a NeXT, unless you do something
which makes that the obvious choice of tool.

Apple should rid itself of the NIH (Not-Invented-Here) syndrome, and acknowledge
that sometimes, someone else has a better idea.  I don't gawk over or pray to
UNIX.  I don't think Apple should look at the NeXT and automatically base the
post-Mac on a UNIX system.  But Apple should weigh all the alternatives, and
look at what other people have shown can be done, and done inexpensively.  Look
at the Video Toaster.  $10,000 for a machine to do what it previously took a
$100,000 machine to do?  And Apple ignored that market, out of NIH.  It's time
for Apple to stop ignorning what the other guys are doing, and get the confidence
to occasionally swallow their pride and admit that they had better do *this*
type of thing, because *that other* company is doing it and showing that it
can be done well, and dammit, it looks like *that other* company had a better
idea than Apple after all.  Of course, Apple pride being what it is, I would
fully expect Apple to look at it, insist they could do it ten times better for
no more than the same price, and have it done.  Is that so bad?

It's time for Apple to move on from the Mac, but not necessarily from the Mac
ideals.

--Adam--
 
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