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	RE: SEE YOU IN THE MARKET

Sent:	5/26/96; 7:24:44 PM
From:	Anthony_Boron@MBnet.MB.CA (Anthony J. Boron)

Dave, that wasn't an "Amusing Rant:, it was a depressing rant.

With all the outsourcing going on at companies, why is Apple doing the developers' role. They have to decide if they are a hardware company (an even that can be broken down into a R & D shop with subsequent licensing ala Power, or doing the whole machine), a systems company, a developer, or a publisher.

How does their "not invented here syndrome" practice reconcile with your talks with Amelio ?

Is Apple beconing government ? > PPS: I hear the complaints from Apple's execs: Where is it safe for us > to work? How can we move forward without alienating developers? > Answer: make the file system faster. Get the bugs out of Copland. Add > new slots to the Finder. Make our software run better and faster. And > save money, give your shareholders a dividend! Invest in > independent developers. Why do you have to employ so many software > writers? With independent developers you get the code for free. And > you cover markets you don't even see. Apple is ineffective at market > development. Get smaller. Let your internal developers be the > entrepreneurs they think they are. Set them free. Let them face the > realities of the market by being part of the market, instead of being > the market killers they try to be.

The above sounds like classic old-style government.

> PPPS: The power to bundle doesn't mean as much as it used to. People who > use the net like to download software. It's fresher stuff!

Exactly. And we like to use or own suite of applications. The preferred platform is Apple, but the only Apple product I really use is FileMaker, but I started using that when it was from Nashoba. There is an example for you ! Name one package that Apple developed that is still a leader today ?

The Internet / Scripting stuff will be no exception.

MacDraw for example has been outstripped by countless programs. MAcWrite. Huh ? It's been so long I can't even think of any more.

3rd party is the way to go, and will be cheaper in the long run because you can pick the winners, and tap the whole world.

Tony Boron