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From: rjc@geech.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Apple
Message-ID: <1991Mar17.212322.15105@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
Date: 17 Mar 91 21:23:22 GMT
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  Check out this article from the 3-15-91 issue of the Wall Street Journal.

   "Another proposed product...would represent Apple's entry into consumer
electronics. This `living room' system combines a compact-disk player and a
stripped down Macintosh (minus disk drives, a keyboard and a monitor). It can
be oeprated by a remote-control device of the sort used to change TV
channels... . The device, to sell for under $1,000,  would display the audio,
visual and text content of a specially made CD and would pit Apple against
Ninetendo, Inc., for the loyalty of the world's electronic entertainment
addicts... .  Mr. Sculley declines to comment...but he does say: `We want to
show that Apple can be as innovative in the mid-'90s as it was...in the mid
'80s.' "

  It looks like Apple's definition of innovation is stealing ideas from
other companies. First Xerox, now Commodore. Doesn't the described
device above sound exactly like CDTV? Apple's system 7.0 has a new
class of events called 'AppleEvents' which allow you to control
applications from within other applications, _exactly_ like what Arexx
ports do (AppleEvents=RexxMsgs). The only difference is Arexx is more
flexible since things don't have to be hard-coded into the applications
entirely. Some Mac shareware hacker could easily write a desk accessory to
interpret a language such as rexx, basic, perl, whatever and Macs would
have the same flexibility as Arexx.

 I just thought the WSJ article was amusing. Next Apple will be putting
chips like Agnus into Macs and calling it innovation.

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