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From: ralphw@ius3.ius.cs.cmu.edu (Ralph Hyre)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: the next great machine
Message-ID: <4206@pt.cs.cmu.edu>
Date: 7 Feb 89 12:59:29 GMT
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In article <593NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) writes:
>But it's not all over. There will be another company down the line that
>will produce something as astonding as that first encounter with a 128k
>mac was for me. ... Commodore has a lot of maturing to do first, as
>they move from selling a hobbyist product to a machine that can be
>legitimately called a "serious competitor".

Why should 'seriousness' and company maturity have any connection with
how wonderful a machine is?  For example, the Amiga 1000 was a revolutionary
machine, and people bought them.  Nobody believed the original Mac was
a 'serious competitor', but people bought them.

Can you really depend on ANY established manufacturer for innovation and 
excitment?  After all, they are resposible to shareholders and thousands of 
employees to continue to earn money each quarter.
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