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From: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Subject: Re: Desktop publishing
Message-ID: <1991Mar27.003015.26820@gn.ecn.purdue.edu>
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Keywords: NEXT
Sender: jess@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (Jess M Holle)
Organization: Purdue University Engineering Computer Network
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 91 00:30:15 GMT

In article <1991Mar26.232600@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellingerwrites:
>
>Again, look at the number of programs, the diversity and the quality.
>100 applications is more than anyone is going to buy in one's
>lifetime.  This is the kind of attitude that would prevent Apple from
>releasing an innovative machine.  Apple does have the potential to
>"throw away" the Mac and start over again.
>
>-Mike

I just ran a listing of all the applications on my drive (via MPW) and
discovered that I have 80 application files from approximately 50 different
software packages (shareware, freeware, and commercial all included). Now
granted, I don't use a lot of those on a daily basis, but yet I do use quite 
a few of them regularly. You may be saying to yourself, "Wait that's less 
than a hundred files!" The problem is that the 30 or so applications that 
I could not do without are different from the 30 or so applications that 
someone else can't do without, not to mention the DA's and INIT's. It is 
relatively obvious that with only 100 programs to offer, there are a lot of 
people whose software needs the NEXT cannot presently cover. Also, the NEXT 
cannot possibly offer a lot of choice as to which programs to meet each need 
with (ie. for many large areas there is only one program). This will 
hopefully change soon. Then the NEXT will be able to live up to the promise 
that I believe it has. Until then, it's shaky.

Jess Holle