Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!seismo!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!cory.Berkeley.EDU!korn From: korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: FullWrite Message-ID: <19963@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Wed, 5-Aug-87 00:22:51 EDT Article-I.D.: ucbvax.19963 Posted: Wed Aug 5 00:22:51 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 7-Aug-87 02:39:41 EDT References: <7043@ism780c.UUCP> <8708040159.AA26918@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <24818@sun.uucp> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: korn@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Peter "Arrgh" Korn) Distribution: world Organization: What, me organized??? Lines: 52 Keywords: FullWrite, Vaporware In <24818@sun.uucp>, chuq@sun.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) said: >> >>... >>And not only that, but for almost 6 months running now they've been >>taking out 2 page spreads telling everyone "don't buy MicroSoft Word, >>'cause FullWrite is gonna be here REAL SOON NOW, and it will beat the pants >>off of Word." >> >>This is very very slimey. >Actually, to be devils advocate a bit, the fullwrite ads came out for about >two months the first time they thought they were going to be ready to ship, >went away, and are back again now that they think they're going to be ready >to ship again. I don't think that's slimy (if they'd done 8 months of >advertising straigh, though.... but they didn't). That is just believing in >a schedule that wasn't realistic. Hmmm... I seem to recall seeing the ads in every issue of every magazine since just after the January MacWorld. In any case, that's not my main point. Everyone can make scheduling mistakes, and (as I said in my posting), I understand that. What I find slimey is Ann Arbor's THRASHING OF MS-WORD, in two page spreads, stating that their program (which will be here "in 60 days") is much better, and "don't get Word, get ours instead." This is NOT the way to advertize products. When you add to that bit of slime Ann Arbor's streaching that "60 days" out into some 8 months so far (and who knows just how long before it's finally here), I start to get downright annoyed. And when that company is one that I (used to) have a lot of respect for, I get to feeling somewhat betrayed. The main reason of my posting was (and is) twofold. I want to cast a different light onto the FullWrite discussion (and after all folks, it's still vaporware), in the process doing a bit of public chastizing of Ann Arbor (in the hopes that they will straighten up); and I also want to go on record as opposing this sort of crap. A lot of software vendors are on this network; I feel that they should look at Ann Arbor's mistake, and not make it themselves. I work in a computer store in my other life (when I'm not busy doing things like netnews), and I've found quite a few customers who now plan to not purchase any Ann Arbor products. I can't say I really disagree with them. This sort of crap goes on all the time in both the Amiga and the Atari markets (perhaps on the Amiga the most of all). By and large, the Macintosh market has been spared this sort of crap. Now I see it on the rise again, and just maybe I can help put a stop to it (not bloody likely, but hey...) Peter -- Peter "Arrgh" Korn korn@ucbvax.Berkeley.EDU {decvax,dual,hplabs,sdcsvax,ulysses}!ucbvax!korn