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From: wtm@neoucom.UUCP (Resident Scatologist)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Apple Challenges HP: the REAL target
Summary: The real target is Apple's own foot
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Date: 26 Mar 88 21:00:49 GMT
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The real target of Apple's law suit seems to be Apple's own foot.
It certainly leaves a bad taste in my mouth.  I'd rather see Apple
focus on innovation, and say, "Presentation Manager?  Yawn.  Who
cares if it is a copy of the MacIntosh environment?  We are coming
out with this nifty new... ... next month!"

Apple is essentaily admitting that htey can't do any better than
they have done, and don't have any tricks remaining up the
corporate sleeve.

In other venues of business if some guy makes a mouse trap as good
as yours, then you go and invent something better to keep your
sales going.

Eventhough Apple has gotten large, IBM is still a bigger entity and
can still roll over Apple in a big blue steamroller full of
lawyers.  If anything, Apple benefits by all the publicity
surrounding the media hoopla.

--Bill