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Subject: Re: DRI agrees to change GEM
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Date: Tue, 22-Oct-85 19:23:52 EDT
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	The visionary light has gone out of Apple. The company has become yet 
another short-sighted next-quarter-oriented concern. Does Apple really believe 
that by forcing DRI to cripple GEMDRAW they are going to sell more MACS? 
People who buy IBM PCs or compatibles will continue to do so for whatever
reasons they buy them today - they are not going to rush out and buy MACS
because DRI crippled GEM. 
	A more visionary Apple might have forseen that GEM, by introducing 
IBM PC and compatible users to a MAC-like interface, was helping to propagate 
a standard user interface in the PC industry; in an industry full of 
incompatibilities, standards are sorely needed, and GEM is/was helping to 
bring together the MAC world and the IBM compatible world, at least at the 
user interface level. If only all drawing, painting and desktop programs would 
confirm to a standard screen display (scroll bars, close boxes, windows of 
variable size, multiple overlaid windows, etc.) the personal computer industry 
as a whole would benefit: when users are confronted by a bewildering array of 
choices, they are turned off and tend to postpone purchase; when faced with an 
industry standard, they feel more comfortable in going ahead and taking the 
plunge. This would, in the long run, benefit Apple itself! 
	Instead, Apple has earned the resentment of personal computer users
by its heavy-handed actions. Its efforts at denying user-friendly interfaces
for the masses will backfire: Whereas the "MAC-like User Interface" may have
soon become the industry standard, displacing anything put out by IBM or 
Microsoft, Apple has now forfeited that position. 
	Maybe its not too late. Apple, could you please offer to license your 
user-interface to all-comers for a nominal sum? You will benefit in the 
long run.
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