lasteve@aix01.aix.rpi.edu (Steven D Borrelli) (03/23/91)
In article <1991Mar22.145326.27445@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu>, medlin@rucs2.sunl
ab.cs.runet.edu (Roger Medlin) writes...
Welcome, welcome. So you want to see the future. Come in. Come in.
Ah, I see you are a NeXt user. Sit down. Sit down.
Lets peer into my crystal ball. Yes, yes, its all becoming clear now.
I can see shadows of the future. NeXT is not there. While it was the
first to deliver an 040 it was only the first of many. Apple releases an
040 in 1991 and continues to be a HUGELY profitable enterprise. NeXT can
no longer afford to dump its machines. NeXT investors finally break free
of SJ's smooth and hypnotic spell they realize what a bad bad financial
mistake they've made. Refusing to wait another 4 years to see their first
yen of profit they pull out. Even the Mac emulator, developed with great
labor and TREMENDOUS legal expense, fails to save the NeXT.
NeXT owners are stuck just as the Atari, TI, Timex, S100, Commodore,
MindSet, and other "leading edge bang for your buck consumers" were
except that this time they are stuck with something that cost 5 times
as much.
... ah the crystal grows cloudy again.....
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I find this to be totally hilarious. Perhaps you should buy a clue.
Apple's '040 will not even come close to crushing the NeXT computers, no matter how small SJ's company is.
For one, The NeXT costs less than anything that mac has, and I beleive that this trend will continue in the future.
The second point the will keep NeXT around is the fact that the NeXT is a fantastic computer that is superior to the macinotsh in many facets (I don't wish to start a flame war, but why are Mac owners so concerned about a company that will sell less than 100,000 systems per year?). If you don't believe that the NeXT has better hardware and software (albeit less software), just put them in a head to head comparison. I did (and now I own a NeXT :).
The NeXT is selling extremely well, and Jobs is determined to keep in the market. It may not sell as much as IBM or Apple, but I think the company's going to be around for a while.
IMHO the next is a far better machine at a better price. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, I guess.If you wish to wait around for a '040 single-tasking Mac, go right ahead.
Steven Borrelli
lasteve@rpi.edu