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- From: cew@netcom.com (Clayton Weimer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.palmtops,comp.sys.pen
- Subject: Re: HELP: Need Newton/HP95 help
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.184851.4814@netcom.com>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 18:48:51 GMT
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- mjones@eos.ncsu.edu (@large(Are you Object-Oriented?)) writes:
-
- >Apple has a name for itself and has a sucessful marketing company
- >(Yes, being number 2 in the personal computer market should be
- >considered sucessful.) ...
- >Apple is selling a consumer electronics product, not a computer.
-
- There is a contradiction here. Also, AT&T is backing EO with
- full steam, therefore, EO should be more successful (using your
- arguments) because of AT&T's consumer marketing channels and
- strengths, right?
-
- >the #1 technical product is usually not the best seller.
-
- Yes, the EO has the disadvantage of not only be #1 technically, but it
- also exists.
-
- > Apple is selling a consumer electronics product, not a computer.
-
- What the heck is a consumer electronics product anyway? If a
- computer is usable and affordable then why do we need this
- distinction?
-
- >It's like a calculator or scheduler. The only difference is that the
- >sell of Newton can lead to other sells of software and interfaces
- >to other computers.
-
- But this is not much of a difference than what personal computers were
- supposed to be. Anyway, a Personal Comunicator (that's "PCs for
- the rest of the rest of us") like EO's is the same idea, but much more
- real.
-
- >The fact that we think apple is full of crap shows that their marketing
- >ploy is working.
-
- There marketing ploy is working, but that's not why many of us think
- they're full of crap. A cardboard box in a jewlry case at the last Comdex
- many, many months after a product announcement (yes, it wasn't really a
- product announcement) might have something to do with it. The other reason
- is they are doing very little to attract independent software developers.
-
- >Unless EO uses the same ploy, it will be stuck in the same niche that
- >Amiga is right now (in America that is) as a toy for the computer nerds.
-
- The EO Personal Communicator, the first in line of many based on the Hobbit
- architecture, is not just more than a toy, but is real, has a real OS built from
- the ground up for this kind of market, which has a very open ISV program.
-
-
- --
- -- Clay
- These views are my own, and when they change my
- observers will be notified.
- Obvion
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