Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!mips!apple!keith
From: keith@Apple.COM (Keith Rollin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: 32 bit addressing
Message-ID: <53172@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 21 May 91 20:20:08 GMT
References: <674629203.8@macgate.fidonet> <1991May21.131744.23732@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc., Cupertino, CA
Lines: 28

In article <1991May21.131744.23732@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> dorner@pequod.cso.uiuc.edu (Steve Dorner) writes:
>Jim.Spencer@p510.f22.n282.z1.fidonet.org (Jim Spencer) writes:
>
>You may argue that NeXT has so few customers that they have to treat them
>better.  That does not change the fact that they do.

I'd probably word this a little differently. I think it's more
accurate to say "...NeXT has so few customers that they _can_
treat them better."

Take a look at some (best guess) numbers. NeXT probably has an
installed base of something like 50,000 computers and about
1000 empoyees. Apple has about 4 milllion Macs and god-knows
how many Apple II's. That's at least 100 times the installed
base of the NeXT. So you figure that we should have 100,000
people before we can give that same level of support.

But we don't have 100,000 people. We've got 15,000. And if
someone posts "Well, maybe you should think about hiring
100,000 people," then I suggest that perhaps the price of
the Mac is a little too high already...

-- 
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Keith Rollin  ---  Apple Computer, Inc. 
INTERNET: keith@apple.com
    UUCP: {decwrl, hoptoad, nsc, sun, amdahl}!apple!keith
"But where the senses fail us, reason must step in."  - Galileo