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- From: philip@utstat.toronto.edu (Philip McDunnough)
- Subject: Re: Project Apple Storm: The Empire Strikes Back
- Message-ID: <1992Dec15.065325.23555@utstat.toronto.edu>
- Organization: University of Toronto, Dept. of Statistics
- References: <Bz8J0B.Mqn@news.iastate.edu> <1gha69INNcc2@gap.caltech.edu>
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 06:53:25 GMT
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- In article <1gha69INNcc2@gap.caltech.edu> toddpw@cco.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel) writes:
-
- [ Reality?...]
- >
- >Apple _does_ need to act to provide a solid, dependable support mechanism for
- >everyone who owns their "orphaned" machines (this includes old macs too!) --
- >this is a good business decision for them because present owners of Apple
- >machines will be far more inclined to stay with Apple when they finally _do_
- >upgrade. But we have to give them a chance to grind the corporate gears and
- >try a plan or two before drastic and illegal action like Ernie's is anywhere
- >near warranted!
-
- As an owner of an HP Integral, NeXT Cube and GS I would have a hard time
- being optimistic about any positive action. Perhaps a $100 trade in rebate
- towards a Mac. In any case, I have come to the conclusion that the whole
- computer world has been coopted by business for their benefit. I doubt there
- are many benefits in staying in this type of environment.
-
- Unless someone comes up with a home, personal, etc...system and community, the
- future is most grim for anyone interested in computing and not involved in it
- at the basic level. At this time there is no such thing as a consumer
- computing product. I do hope the ad wizards don't manage to convince people
- that their children will somehow be unable to think without having owned a
- micro computer.
-
- The GS is far too expensive, has a nice user community, unacceptable
- productivity mode, good multimedia potential which isn't being developed
- except perhaps by Hyperstudio, etc...It should cost no more than a few
- hundred dollars and have a decent editing resolution. Without that, I doubt
- it can last much longer.
-
- A certain recent present was sent to us called the Miracle Piano System.
- It consists of a mediocre midi 49 key keyboard and a neat bunch of sw. It
- should have been developed for the GS. Instead it's available for the SNES,
- Mac, PC, Amiga/CDTV, etc...Kind of nice actually. We don't even have a decent
- affordable sequencer, poor notation capabilities, etc...and sound should be
- right up there in the priority list.
-
- Philip
- philip@utstat.toronto.edu
-