Path: utzoo!yunexus!geac!orcisi!michael
From: michael@orcisi.UUCP (Michael Herman)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: Is it safe to write for OS/2 Presentation Manager
Message-ID: <1310@orcisi.UUCP>
Date: 31 Mar 88 11:48:50 GMT
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Posted: Thu Mar 31 06:48:50 1988
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> Bingo!  I'd say Apple's suit is producing exactly the results they set out
> to produce.  Generate fear and uncertainty in the people generating app's
> for competing machines, thus (presumably) increasing Apple's sales.

From a marketing perspective, Apple is doing just the opposite.  To a
large part of the market, they will be seen as publicly recognizing and 
endorsing MS Windows/Presentation Manager as a serious competitor to the
Apple interface.

p.s. This discussion is already going on in comp.sys.ibm.pc.  It probably
	 isn't very net-efficient to start one here in comp.graphcis.