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  Apple's strategy for the future seems solid.  They have superior
hardware, the PowerMac, which just this week hit 300 MHz-- a clear win for
the PowerPC Platform over the competition.
  To run this great hardware, they have a superior OS on the way --
Rhapsody, which will bring new meaning to the word modern and its
associated buzzwords, and give some already impressive hardware a large
performance boost.
  What Apple does not seem to have, however, is the crucial third piece of
the computer puzzle-- applications. In to make their new strategy
compelling to the average consumer, Apple needs the support of developers
to make office tools, games, and other applications that take advantage of
this great hardware and OS. Without this support, and a large measure of
it, Apple will go nowhere.
  Enter the Developer's Coalition, a well-researched, hard-thought answer
to this problem, and one that should put all support for Be and other
alternatives out of the picture for good.

  Picture:
* A new organization in which the various, usually competing, Mac hardware
vendors *all* come together to encourage and fund development for the Mac
OS-- a group composed of not just the AIM triad (Apple, IBM, Motorola), but
also the 12 or so cloners, both large and small.
* The stability and harmony such a group will bring the platform with its
we're all in the same boat together message.
* The reaction of developers to an organization with this breadth and
resource level.
* This same forum taking on many of the other platform-wide duties, such as
evangelism and advertising-- like that PowerPC commercial everyone is
longing for...
* The tremendous boost in public confidence that will result from this move.

  Sound good?
  Then I need your help.
  The above organization exists only on paper. However, a group of
enterprising people have hatched a plan to publicize the idea, hoping to
create two reactions: one, let the press and developers know that there is
a huge cadre of "average Joe" Mac users out there eager to see more
programs developed for the Mac; and two, to get the different hardware
vendors to either form such a group, or start contributing to an Apple-led
effort to provide these benefits.
  This plan entails a massive e-mail campaign targeting all the Mac
hardware vendors with cc's to all the Mac software developers. Address
lists for these will be posted on the eve of the campaign. Following is the
form letter. Please help us out by sending it to the provided mailing lists
on or between the dates of *Sunday, April 20th* and *Saturday, April 26*.
  Thank you.

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* MacMarines   http://www.macmarines.com/dcnews/dcnews.html

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