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From: edm002@muvms3.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: WOULD *YOU* BUY A NeXT COMPUTER? (Read even if you wouldn't)
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Date: 21 Dec 89 14:08:28 GMT
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In article <1TqpCt#6PkSJw=eric@snark.uu.net>, eric@snark.uu.net (Eric S. Raymond) writes:
> In <317@ns-mx.uiowa.edu> Geoffrey Amthor wrote:
>> Fans and flamers alike share one uncertainty, however: Will the NeXT
>> succeed in the marketplace?
> 
> I answered this in email, but I cannot resist the urge to post one question
> to any NeXT fans reading news. To wit:
> 
> Why should I buy Steve Jobs's Mac-on-steroids closed-architecture box when
> I can get cheaper, faster commodity iron with better standards conformance
> based on the 386?
	Does anybody else notice the "Lisa Syndrome" evident in the NeXT
computer?  Maybe this is one for the paradigm discussion, but I've observed a
progression of successive Lisa-likes from the Jobs enterprise(s) ever since the
$10,000 computer bit the dust years ago.  It seems as though, when Lisa
wouldn't sell on its own, we got a much-reduced version in the Macintosh.  Then
the Mac started its trek upward in cost and capability, with each model
becoming more Lisa-like.  Now, finally, we get Lisa for the 90's with voice
mail and Webster's Dictionary thrown in.
	I'm a Mac person myself, but I have been
intrigued at the apparently obsessive duplication of Lisa-like machines.  I get
the feeling that Jobs *knows* what we need, even if we don't, and he's going to
be ready when we finally realize the error of our ways and how we should have
bought those Lisa's years ago.  Is there a Lisa Paradigm at work here?
	Just thought I'd ask.
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