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- From: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Subject: Re: the REAL problem is...
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- Reply-To: jeffo@uiuc.edu (J.B. Nicholson-Owens)
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 20:47:48 GMT
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- Chuck Waltrip writes
- > But NeXT's only real asset is its (diminishing) head start in
- > the OOP arena.
-
- I agree; I don't believe that significant numbers of people are
- migrating to, have migrated to or are starting with NeXTSTEP. By
- 'significant', I mean that NeXT, Inc.'s profits haven't shown enough
- growth. I'd say that if the people with money are truly interested in
- OOP, then they'll wait until it's available from Microsoft or Taligent.
- I think it's another case of the masses saying, "What we've been doing
- and what we're doing now is working for us, so why change to something
- else small like NeXTSTEP?"
-
- I think if NeXT realized that developers are not where the money is,
- they'd have a more profitable NeXT hardware investment.
-
- I think that users are the key to the success of the NeXT. Users tell
- the developers what to make with their tools, and if developers want to
- make money, they fulfill the user's needs to the user's satisfaction.
- If left alone, users don't have the know-how or the will to want to
- make their own word processors, databases, spreadsheets and CAD
- programs. If they did, the majority of users would be developers as
- well. Similarly, when left only with other developers, developers tend
- to create more and more tools for development thereby making something
- that looks and feels just like UNIX (the land of no applications and a
- hard-to-use CLI).
- --
- -- Jeff (jeffo@uiuc.edu)
- -- NeXTmail welcome
-