Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uwm.edu!spool.mu.edu!uunet!mdisea!jackb From: jackb@MDI.COM (Jack Brindle) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system Subject: Re: May 13th yesterday (was May 13th Today) Message-ID: <1991May15.180202.2625@MDI.COM> Date: 15 May 91 18:02:02 GMT References: > <17937@venera.isi.edu> Sender: news@MDI.COM Organization: Motorola, Mobile Data Division - Seattle, WA Lines: 21 In article kiran@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (Kiran Wagle) writes: >jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) writes: > >>I am also impatiently waiting for System 7, but I don't think it's >>fair to blame Apple for the fact that not everyone who wants it has it >>already. They'd like that too, don't you think? > >Who else is there to blame? They've been shipping upgrade kits, so at >least some disk copying is being done. Sending 7 disks to each of >their dealers by overnight mail doesn't seem so unreasonable to me, >nor does selling sumex &c licences to distribute the software, for >say, $1 or so. But Apple still hasn't got the hang of being a mass >marketer, even with that guy from Pepsi in charge. Remember, the larger chains handle distribution themselves. So, Apple ships product to the company's warehouse, who ships it to the individual dealers (or other warehouses then to dealers). I wonder if some of these stores will have System 7 by the END of the month... Jack Brindle ham radio: wa4fib/7