Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Path: utzoo!utgpu!craig
From: craig@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca (Craig Hubley)
Subject: Re: Emulations  (was Re: Amiga 3000 vs. NeXT)
Message-ID: <1991Feb17.201051.16448@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca>
Organization: UTCS Public Access
References: <1991Feb13.013145.10954@gpu.utcs.utoronto.ca> <1991Feb13.040618.5160@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <12121@helios.TAMU.EDU> <1991Feb13.230520.661@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: Sun, 17 Feb 1991 20:10:51 GMT

In article <1991Feb13.230520.661@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes:
>Kevin>In addition, couldn't a Mac user claim: "I can move from a Mac to an
>     >Amiga or ST or RISC without losing my programs, yet owners of those
>     >computers cannot move to a Mac and do the same."  ??
>Craig>But they wouldn't say that.  It's bad marketing.  How would this
>     >help to sell *your* machines?

Hey, I didn't say this.  Keep your attributions straight.  'F' in rn...

>  Ah. Maybe you _did_ get the jokes after all <g>.  Alternative serious
>  answer:  I didn't say "Apple Corp".  I said "user".  You don't think
>  it's an advantage to a Mac user, that he can also buy/use an Atari STacy
>  to run his Mac programs, instead of overpaying for a Mac laptop??  And
>  is it a disadvantage that Unix users can buy other than AT&T computers?
>  Yes, yes, I realize you were talking brandname hardware viewpoint :-).

That said, I agree with you.  It is definitely an advantage to the user
to buy a machine that keeps options open.  The fact that the corp. that
makes the box would never acknowledge those options as legitimate (although
some do, Apple seemingly never will) isn't important.  Any good salesman
will.  Failure to acknowledge such options as a customer value, by the way,
is a sign of their insecurity that you will actually stick to their own
system once you have the box.  In other words, if they don't acknowledge
that running Mac software is a legit option, then they are not confident
that you will want to use their own (say NeXT or Amiga) software over the
emulator.

In technical terms, what it means is that Apple is selling some pretty
weak hardware if the lowest common denominator of several other boxes
(e.g. Atari, Amiga, maybe soon the NeXT) can run its software.

Just my opinion,
-- 
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