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From: buyse@convexe.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GS+
Message-ID: <64800015@convexe>
Date: 25 Feb 88 21:11:00 GMT
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Nf-From: convexe.UUCP!buyse    Feb 25 15:11:00 1988


I wouldn't bank any bucks behind that quote by Jobs.  He hasn't done
anything with Apple since his departure a few years ago.  I doubt that
the Mac II was a short-run project, also.

It is also unrealistic to preview a machine to a host of developers,
reviewers, et cetera and then go back and make significant design
revisions.  You simply kill yourself on delays and loss of revenue due
to the delay in production, shipment, and sales.

I prefer the incremental and evolutionary pattern of new product followed
by incremental improvements.  Since I do not own a GS, I can not say for
sure what possible drawbacks it currently has.  However, I would say that
18 months is not too short a time for a revision to be released (or at
least planned).  

But I seriously doubt that the speed issue would be resolved at this
point if in fact a "GS+" were to be released.  I think that a higher-end
product spinoff would be the only outlet for a souped up GS right now,
and I think it is too soon for THAT.

Or not.

-Russell Buyse.

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