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From: mvs@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG (Michael V. Stein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Jobs' marketing scam
Message-ID: <3908@meccts.MECC.MN.ORG>
Date: 22 Apr 89 22:05:44 GMT
References: <3098@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU>
Reply-To: mvs@meccts.UUCP (Michael V. Stein)
Organization: MECC Technical Services, St. Paul, MN
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In article <3098@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU> rwl@uvacs.cs.Virginia.EDU (Ray Lubinsky) writes:
 [talking about Jobs selling to more than the college market ]
>It would have been more subtle if he'd put up more of a struggle to hold to the
>academic market and waited a little longer.  It might not have even felt like 
>we've been manipulated by slick hype instead of rational evaluation.

I'm really not sure what the big deal is about all this.  

Aside from that, I'm also not convinced by your reasoning.  I listened 
to a NeXT rep about two months ago and he said that at a meeting of 
Job's academic advisors, the advisors had sharply changed their position.  
Supposedly the advisors had originally pressured Jobs into promising 
that the machine would be marketed only to education for the first 
year it was out - so they could show to the world what higher ed could 
do with the proper machine.  At any rate, supposedly, a few months 
ago the advisors met again and decided that if they were ever going 
to get the third party software they wanted, the machine should be 
marketed to all groups.  

The story could all be a lie but most college profs are pompous
enough to behave that way.


-- 
Michael V. Stein
Minnesota Educational Computing Corporation - Technical Services

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