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From: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Apple System 7.0
Message-ID: <280@xdos.UUCP>
Date: 13 May 89 05:01:28 GMT
References: <17148@usc.edu> <11262@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU> <17153@usc.edu>
Reply-To: doug@xdos.UUCP (Doug Merritt)
Organization: Hunter Systems, Mountain View CA (Silicon Valley)
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In article <17153@usc.edu> papa@pollux.usc.edu (Marco Papa) writes:
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>Well, with more than 1200 software titles I am pretty happy at the moment.

Note that this is around twice as many as are available for the 
Sun in their Catalyst catalog. And Sun is doing quite well, thank you.
(I use Suns at work, and like them.)

BTW I never really understood why people make such a big deal about
having a million titles for the IBM PC. Remember Sturgeon's Law:
90% of EVERYTHING is crap. And how is anyone going to use all 1200
titles as it is? There are already too many WYSIWYG wp packages for
the Amiga for me to know which is best. It seems to me that the
important thing is to have *some* competition in each category, to
drive prices down and quality up. After that it just (A) gets confusing
to the consumer and (B) reduces market share for each s/w house.
	Doug
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