#marketing OS/2
24-Jan-95 06:21:13
Sb: #182956-#marketing OS/2
Fm: Paul Idol 71024,3245
To: J Saperstein/FontBank 75300,632
Well, don't knock the Newton. Or rather, don't knock its potential and its
possible descendants. Obviously =IT= is less than promised, but I think that
its basic design and software could result in really kick-ass Newtons down the
line.
Otoh, you're absolutely right about price and performance. They should have
liscensced the OS years ago. And they should have kept the Apple OS years
ahead of others, instead of letting things get to the point where it's hard to
point to real, definite, and large advantages to Macs and to things that simply
CANNOT be done on other machines in the same price magnitude.
It's sad, because I don't much like PCs or Microsoft, and Apple is the only
likely large-scale competitor to the PC platform. For now I can do enough on
my Amiga. I just hope it doesn't break irreperable soon.
Paul (aka Mr. Zombie)