bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) (09/20/90)
In article <TY.90Sep19234202@thedog.cis.ufl.edu> ty@thedog.cis.ufl.edu (Tyng-Jing Yang) writes:
After the release of New NeXT, here is a question for NeXT's
first-year personal buyers.
"Are you regret to buy(love) NeXT too early ?"
ps: Early Birds should get the worms(reward,not bugs)
My girlfriend (now my wife) and I bought a Macintosh in March of 1984
because it was so clearly revolutionary in what it brought to the
personal user class machine, and in so many ways The Right Thing. As
expected, Apple improved the machine with subsequent products. The
upgrade path was too expensive and too frequent for me, and my Classic
Mac spent the latter years of its life running uw in my home study,
performing fine service as a multi-window terminal dialed into my UNIX
machines at work. By the time it finally fritzed out, it was unable
to run any vaguely-current systems or applications. Also, by that
time, Apple had been taken over from the innovators by the lawyers and
I was no longer interested in maintaining or purchasing their
products. That Classic Mac case now collects dust in storage, having
been cannibalized to donate components to friends' machines of similar
vintage.
I bought a machine with specific capabilities, and (until it had
hardware problems) it never ceased to perform those same functions. I
got exactly what I paid for, and exactly what I expected. I received
years of reliable service while it did exactly what it was originally
advertised to do, and what I bought it to do.
In every field, progress marches on. People who bought the Nth
generation of any technology are bound to be passed by when the N+Mth
arrives. But in the mean time, they have received the benefits of
using the technology during that period of time. And the Nth
generation stuff continues (modulo breakdowns) to do exactly what it
did when it was purchased.
I know people who still drive 1972 Dodge Darts. They aren't surprised
or angry when Chrysler introduces new models that surpass theirs.
They just decide, using the normal cost/benefit analyses, when it's
time to trade in their 72 Dart on an 81 Horizon :-)