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- From: jcb (Jim Becker)
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- Subject: Re: Stability of Next as a company
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- Date: 31 Aug 92 21:46:06 GMT
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- From: glenn@rightbrain.com (Glenn Reid)
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- Jim Becker writes
- >
- > walking by Computer Attic on University in Palo Alto last week gave me
- > a gut feeling about the future of the black box.
-
- Computer Attic is a bad metric. They never had their heart in the
- NeXT to begin with; I don't even know why they bother to fly the banners.
-
- i seem to remember when Computer Attic originally got them they were
- very positive on the NeXT, and it was the place i went to play with
- one. didn't know of another store around that would carry them,
- except BusinessLand. *That* was a high-priced store! Box of floppies
- for $25!
-
- back when the NeXT first came out they were in the windows of CA, and
- there was a lot of NeXT presence felt walking by or into the store.
-
- as an update to my original post, the NeXT sign has now disappeared
- from the front window. there are still two banners in the back, with a
- Mac banner in the middle of them. so it was there for at least two
- years, and just vanished in the past week.
-
- A better place to go, for totally the opposite experience, is MacAdam
- computers in San Francisco.
-
- not finding a decent NeXT store in all of Silicon Valley, and having
- to go to San Francisco to find one, does not bode well for mass market
- sales. people need to see the machine to fall in love with it, after
- all.
-
- i'm not flaming the NeXT, personally i think it's the best computer
- i've seen (in twenty years). however i was also involved heavily with
- the Amiga, which teaches one that there are marketplace rules beyond
- "mere" technology. this is unfortunate, as technically superior
- products fall by the wayside and those that win out normally lack
- technical innovativeness and "spirit". seeing the Japanized version of
- the NeXT made me understand how far ahead they are of Sun, for
- example. but Sun rules the workstation market.
-
- --
-
- so, my big question with the Amiga became "who is making a living
- selling third party products for the machine". it seemed that the
- Amiga would support people that had other main-stream incomes, but not
- those that "quit their day-jobs" and went fulltime.
-
- anyone out there paying their mortgage on software sales? have a
- non-home office, and are making a profit?
-
- -jim
- --
- -Jim Becker / jcb@ncd.com / Network Computing Devices, Inc. (NCD)
-