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- From: usdta004@mmm.serc.3m.com (Timothy S. Shea)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.132716.3803@mmm.serc.3m.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 13:27:16 GMT
- Article-I.D.: mmm.1992Jul21.132716.3803
- References: <14784@claris.com>
- Organization: 3M - St. Paul, MN 55144-1000 US
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- From article <14784@claris.com>, by mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner):
- > In article <1992Jul18.194414.10494@mmm.serc.3m.com>, usdta004@mmm.serc.3m.com (Timothy S. Shea) writes:
- >>
- >> From article <14761@claris.com>, by mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner):
- >
- >> >
- >>
- >> I disagree with this statement. Bill Gates and Steve Jobs had the same
- >> ideas about GUIs. Apple hired away a good deal of the Xerox PARC
- >> developers... Good old Bill Gates hired the rest away. Windows and the
- >> Mac were under developement at the same time. Mr. Gates only cared
- >> about the Mac because he sunk a good deal of money into developing
- >> applications for it...meanwhile he was developing Windows for the Intel
- >> machines... A number of other companies also had GUI's under
- >> development for Intel machines...
- >
- > Windows and the Mac were under development at the same time? Why then did
- > the Mac come out in 1984, and windows not come out until quite a number of
- > years later--and a halfway decent version of Windows didn't come out until
-
- So what's your point? Yes the Mac came out sooner but that does NOT mean
- that Microsoft (or IBM or ...) was not working on there own GUI before
- the Mac came out... Why didn't Windows come out sooner? Gee maybe
- because Microsoft has always had major problems with getting software
- out on time and bug free.
-
- e 1990 or 91--six years after the Mac OS first came out. And Windows, in a
- > number of ways, still hasn't caught up to the interface of the original
- > Mac OS.
- >
- > As for the same ideas about GUIs, people buy Microsoft's Mac products
- > despite their implementation of their GUIs, not because of it.
-
- Two people can have the exact same idea about a product but the way they
- implement those ideas and how they build that product to achieve those
- ideas can be radically different and you can come up with two totally
- different products...
-
- I still don't see that point of that message...
-
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