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From: Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU
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Subject: Non-flamed response to Brian
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Date: 8 Feb 90 14:24:32 GMT
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> > Claris, Roger Wagner Publishing, The Byte Works, Scholastic, MECC, Beagle,
> >  etc.  etc.
> 
> You call that a list?  That's not IIgs support.  A real list would have
> included the obvious:  EA, Broderbund, Activision, Sierra On-Line, etc.  The
 
Brian, compare the two lists.  The first one is a list of companies 
providing high-quality productivity software.  Your list is a bunch
of game companies.  I'm not knocking the games industry, and I
appreciate your efforts to develop new games for the machine, however,
most of the current effort is going into the development of "meat and
potatos" products.  The IIgs needs folks like Barney Stone for database
work and the guys at Claris (Scott, et al) for wordprocessing.  And,
we can't forget Andy Nicholas' hard work at making NuFX a reality.
 
If the productivity software falls off, and the Glen Bredons, Morgan
Davises, Don Eltons, Bill Bashams, etc. leave the Apple II market, 
then I'll first start to be concerned.  Game manufacturors come and
go.  But, the Apple II is still a top quality home and education
product.  So, there will always be a need for productivity software.
 
I'm not telling you to leave the market.  Au contraire, I encourage you
to continue developing for the IIgs.  Many of the products that have
come out this year have had an inspirational effect on developers I
know.  Actually, it's more a form of envy.  "Geez, how did those
French guys do it? [in response to FTA]" and "That's really nice [in
response to Soundsmith]".  People are taking more time to develop the
nice touchs instead of rushing a more barren product to market. 
 
> -Brian
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