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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: [Morgan Davis: IMA BRO]
Message-ID: <9509@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 26 Jan 89 23:08:09 GMT
References: <8901251736.AA00460@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <8901251736.AA00460@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-sol!mdavis@nosc.mil writes:
>I really can't comment on this.  But here's a hint:  $.
>Speaking only for myself, I would have to guess that the TimeOut series has
>been far more successful for Beagle Bros than all of the previous Beagle
>titles combined.  So it is good business sense to channel more resources into
>that area than into cute little utilities for Applesoft (the stuff I grew up
>with and loved!).

Certainly that is the typical reasoning behind such corporate directions.
However, one would certainly hope that there is a market niche for products
with smaller, more sophisticated clientele.  If everybody runs after the
same market to the total neglect of the people who are real innovators,
everything turns to crap in the long run.  Lord knows we have plenty already.