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Let's Have Fun -- Now! RE: JAVA JAVA JAVA

Sent:5/22/96; 11:46:55 AM
From: peter@stairways.com.au (Peter N Lewis)

> I can tell you this much -- a $740 million loss and a new CEO hasn't
> managed to penetrate the consciousness of some of Apple's internal
> development people. They appear to still think it's about them. They
> need a wakeup call, and if Gil doesn't deliver it, where is Apple?
>
> From the artist in me -- why bother struggling with the Mac platform
> when the platform vendor seems still to have to prove that it's their
> brilliance that makes the lights shine in this world?
>
> In other words, why take any creative risks when they're going to
> claim all the credit?

Never a truer word said. The whole conference (while vastly improved on last year's feel) was still about Apple doing the big stuff and how developers could fit in to the cracks. Yeah, I want to write a little plug in for Apple's web server. Sure, I want to write a plug in for Apple's FTP client. Unhuh.
Peter.
PS: Wow, four responses from one message - you must really have hit some nerves!

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