Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!spool.mu.edu!cs.umn.edu!ariel.unm.edu!triton.unm.edu!nwickham From: nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT Press Release Message-ID: <1991Apr09.034458.5317@ariel.unm.edu> Date: 9 Apr 91 03:44:58 GMT Article-I.D.: ariel.1991Apr09.034458.5317 References: <-o2G3=mj1@cs.psu.edu> <1991Apr8.142326.28930@grebyn.com> Distribution: comp Organization: University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Lines: 48 In article melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >Part of the marketing game has to do with how other people perceive >your machine. If the computer gets branded a "game machine", it will >take a long time for that to wear off, if ever, even if it don't >deserve the title. You can't explain to Fortune 500 companies that >games demonstrate the real power of a computer. So, what NeXT is >trying to do is proclaim themselves a success so that people who don't >understand computers will also perceive them as a success. NeXT is >fighting the "nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" disease. It's all >a marketing game, and YOU MUST PLAY TO WIN! That is the major reason >that I respect Apple. They took on IBM and won. They are the only >other PC alternative in the business world. Commdore is selling >millions of machines and they still haven't won, as demonstated by the >Computer Shopper dropping their coverage. > >-Mike I was wondering, have you ever sat down on an A3000 with some nice software on it? ...seen how snappy and responsive it is? Now that I think about it, I find it quite remarkable that you continue debating the advantages of NeXT vs the advantages of Amiga with out having ever spent any time on an Amiga. You seem to be at a tremendous disadvantage since most of the people who debate this subject here have spent some time on a NeXT. And speaking of marketing... I made several posts awhile back about why I thought Amiga will eventually become the #2 computer behind IBM/compatibles. You reinforced some of my arguments by refering to a Mac as a "Macintoy." Steve Jobs and his NeXT computer ...the whole things seems pretty flaky to me. Making hundreds of millions of dollars when you are in your twenties can can give you a feeling of inviciblity that will separate you from the rest of the world. The NeXT sounds like the beat all, do all, end all computer conceived by a mind coming unwrapped. ...the NeXT failure is going to play like a B movie and I'll bet a lot of people out there in the industry know it. I don't mean to be so negetive. It is just the way I see it and I'll tell you because you sound like a the kind of person who likes to hear whats on someone's mind. (Prob. esp. a really warped mind like mine!) NCW Note: The above opinions are probably the best you'll ever get.