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- From: gbowie@dreams.skidmore.edu (Gavin Bowie)
- Subject: Re: the REAL problem is...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.071447.4654@scott.skidmore.edu>
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- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 07:14:47 GMT
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- > The NeXT has and continues to have excellent potential. But the
- > problem is that potential is all it has. Unless some big apps come out
- > for the NeXT (or some fast, and very much needed, relief via software,
- > for example, Microsoft Word or Excel on the NeXT), or something happens
- > to get a lot of people into the NeXT, it will become another has-been
- > with a good idea.
-
- YES, but even if Word/Excel come out as NeXTApps, why should I purchase a
- NeXT to run them?
-
- NeXT needs something that will make it worth buying.
-
- So far, the GUI and NeXTMail is what I see as the NeXT's ONLY Advantage.
- What can a NeXT do that another platform won't (easily) do
- and WHY do I need it?
- and WHY should I buy 200 of them to give to everyone in my office?
-
- ps I dont give a damn about development.
- Unless someone (else) is doing it FOR ME, making an app that I can either
- Use or Sell.
- and I dont care a lot about speed, either...
- although I do get sick of waiting for my Mac IIci to deal with TIFF's
-
- --trip
- more than happy to have NeXTMail.
-