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IBM & Apple Bed Partners

    11-Jul-91 20:57:38
Fm: Tony Muscarella 70367,3321
To: Black Belt Systems 76004,1771
> Do you really think that CM is "in their hair"? Yes, I honestly do. Back in 1985, Commodore and Apple were both sucking wind. Apple wound up "hitting a home run with desktop publishing", and not only saved themselves, but went on to prosper (the quotes were from a Commodore spokesperson, I don't remeber his name, but he's not there anymore). I believe that Apple and IBM believe that Commodore can "hit a home run" in the area of multimedia, as Apple did some years earlier. In particular, I feel Apple, now that they've crossed the bridge, wants to burn it to make sure no other companies follow their foot steps. This is why I feel Apple completely ignores the Amiga and sometimes makes dubious claims, like the one where they claimed that the Apple Macintosh can run more software than any other computer on the market, because they can run Mac, PC (with SoftPC) and UNIX. This ad actually ran in PC Magazine, which got me mad enough to EMAIL a complaint to PC Magnet; I haven't seen the ad after the first two times it ran. Over the flight pattern… – via Whap!