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From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris)
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Subject: Re: Apple Mac - (nf)
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Date: Fri, 10-Feb-84 11:08:27 EST
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Posted: Fri Feb 10 11:08:27 1984
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> Those neatly integrated features make it much harder to bring in
> outside packages and one really has the feeling that the top people
> at Apple, if you could get real candor, would say "But why would anyone
> want something other than the stuff we're putting together?"

Well, with the Mac Apple is making more of an effort to enlist outside
software companies than they did with the Lisa.  Obviously, they want
the outside companies to give their products a Mac/Lisa-style user
interface (for instance, a WordStar for the Mac/Lisa which showed
boldfaced text as ^Bfoobar^B and which made no use of the mouse or the
pull-down menus would be too silly for words).  Frankly, given a choice
between a well-integrated package and one that had more "features" but
had a user interface designed for the lowest-common-denominator system,
I'd be sorely tempted to choose the former.  The integrated user interface
is not a low-value frill; it has considerable worth which may outweigh
the costs of making it harder to bring in outside packages.

	Guy Harris
	{seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy