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From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham)
Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life.
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Date: Sat, 06 Apr 91 01:36:37 GMT
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In article <9x1G.&$h1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes:
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>In article <1991Apr05.214640.25369@ariel.unm.edu> nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes:
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>   What will happen when Steve Jobs can no longer pay for software companies to
>   port to NeXT.  Will there be enough machines out there to make for a good 
>   software market?  The single biggest complaint people have about Amiga is that
>   you can't get software for it.  What will it by like for NeXT?
>
>Gloom and doom.  Wonderful, and rather unimportant to this discussion.
>
>   Snob appeal is a fine thing to market in sports cars or fashion, but you have
>   a problem doing it with computers.  
>
>Grow up.  I am debating the merits of the NeXT vs. the Amiga and Mac.
>I'm not saying that I'm better than you because...
>
>-Mike

Don't get the wrong idea.... software support is a real part of the game.  I'm
not being critical of NeXT for having snob appeal ....I would like an expensive
sports car myself someday.... its just that with computers, you're limited by
the software that is available.  That is what Mac users always throw up in Amiga
user's faces: Amiga is nice but there is not very much software for it.  I've
heard several times that a better computer than Amiga is the Sinclair (?) but
there is not any software for it.

So gloom and doom is also part of the equation and is very important to the 
discussion.  Maybe the prospect of the NeXT failure is simply something you
are unwilling to consider in your evaluations; but the NeXT failure I believe
is likely.  More than anything else, it is what is keeping me away.  I don't
want to dump four or five or six thousand dollars into something only to see
that it will be nearly totally useless in a couple of years!  I don't care
that it has mathmitca now or WP now or Lotus now.  I beleive your unrstrained
excitement and you blind faith in Steve Jobs or a black machine is what is 
childish.  Maybe you could grow up just a little.  Your childish behavior 
may cost a lot of people a lot of money.

Let me ask you again.  Do you believe that there will be enough NeXTs out 
there to support a healthy software market?


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