srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz) (12/16/89)
I just read on CompuServe that Xerox has finally gotten around to suing Apple. It's about time. -- SR Pietrowicz UUCP: ...!uunet!modcomp!srp CIS: 73047,2313
don@vax1.acs.udel.EDU (Donald R Lloyd) (12/16/89)
In article <196@modcomp.UUCP> srp@modcomp.UUCP (Steve Pietrowicz) writes: >I just read on CompuServe that Xerox has finally gotten around to suing Apple. > >It's about time. > Apple's 'Look and feel' madness is backfiring on them.... I just hope, if xerox wins, they don't get greedy and go gunning after other GUI's we all know & love. I seem to remember Adobe & Apple having some disagreements over PostScript not long ago, after which Apple decided to write its own version of P.S. I wonder if Adobe can say "Look and feel"? :-) Apple seems to be running into lots of problems these days... Perfect time for CBM to really push into the various markets Apple is trying to (or already has :-( ) taken from Ami. -- Gibberish .sig for sale or lease. is spoken Contact don@vax1.acs.udel.edu for more information. here. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault.
phorgan@cup.portal.com (Patrick John Horgan) (12/18/89)
I've been waiting a long time...I take back everything I said Xerox. Patrick Horgan...(phorgan@cup.portal.com)
cmcmanis@stpeter.Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (12/20/89)
In article <5339@udccvax1.acs.udel.EDU> (Donald R Lloyd) writes: > Apple seems to be running into lots of problems these days... Perfect > time for CBM to really push into the various markets Apple is trying to > (or already has :-( ) taken from Ami. Hmmm, well for those of us who watch the markets, and listen to the words of the Stock-Bimbos (aka analysts) it seems that Apple is really taking it on the chin because of two conditions : 1) Their low end (< $2000) is taking it on the chin because they don't have anything except the SE holding them up and it's losing to the PC clones. 2) Their bread and butter is their low end. Now Apple likes to hype the Mac II and its kin, and they are high priced and high margin products. But the danger is and has been that with all that looking into the bright blue sky you tend to no watch where you are stepping and it looks kinda like Apple put their foot into a cow pie. This does give people like Commodore an opportunity to steal some market share from Apple by offering more features for less money and a better system overall. Now that the software base is in the thousands versus the hundreds of packages, they are given a rare gift. Hopefully Copperman will jump in there. Of course Commodore has been hyping the high end as well with the 2500/20 and 2500/30. Let us hope they learn from the problems Apple is in at the moment. I suspect nicely packaged 1000 class machine (the mythical 1500) would do well in this market with it's productivity mode. It will take some effort on Commodore's part though. Send your cards and letters to Harry and Irving. --Chuck McManis uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@Eng.Sun.COM These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you. "If it didn't have bones in it, it wouldn't be crunchy now would it?!"