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Make it $.03:

    The way the statement was released makes it sound rather as though
the Apple operating software (sys. 6.x,7.x,..) is more efficient than
other commonly used systems.  Because most of the world that apple wants
to target (business) thinks in IBM, apple is happy to release this
statement b/c you can bet that dos & microsquish boxes are implicitly
less efficient - even at apple's old jacked up prices.

RE:

Excerpts from andrew.mac: 14-Mar-94 Re: Study Claims Mac Users .. by
James Christophr Bickley 
> Date: Mon, 14 Mar 1994 16:08:06 -0500 (EST)
> From: James Christophr Bickley <picard+@CMU.EDU>
> To: Bulletin Board Administration <bb+andrew.mac@andrew.cmu.edu>,
>     Outbound News <outnews+netnews.cmu.comp.sys.mac@andrew.cmu.edu>,
>     Outbound News
>     <outnews+netnews.comp.sys.mac.databases@andrew.cmu.edu>
> Subject: Re: Study Claims Mac Users More Productive Than Windows 03/10/94
> Cc: 
> 
> >Excerpts from andrew.mac: 13-Mar-94 Re: Study Claims Mac Users .. by Ali
> >E Aydar 
> >> > "Business have spent millions of dollars over the past decade
> >> > installing PCs, with very little proof of their increasing
> >> > productivity," explained Dr David Nagel, vice president and
> >> > general manager of Apple's Applesoft division.
> >> 
> >> I'm sorry sir, but I think you might be a little mistaken.  Businesses
> >> used to be doing all their work with paper and pencil and typewritier. 
> >> You're trying to tell me that buying a PC didn't increase their
> >> productivity!!??!!  I do believe the study is correct, but not to this
> >> extent!!!
> >> 
> >> Ali
> > 
> > 
> >That is exactly what he is saying. There are studies that suggest that
> >buisness productivity has not increased as a whole in spite of the
> >increase useage of computers in the office. It is very similar to the
> >idea that the average time spent on house work (cooking and cleaning)
> >has not decreased in spite of all the new gadgets and appliances that we
> >now find in the home.
> 
> Just to throw in my $0.02 here.  I have seen several studies that show
> that computers have enhanced everyone's productivity.  However, the
> article goes on to state that this is a bad thing.  This is because
> people, using computers, have access to large stores of information. 
> This enables them to create huge documents in the same amount of time it
> used to take to type up a one page paper on a typewriter.  As an
> example, the article refered to engineering proposals.  Let's say
> someone wants to build a bridge.  The city calls for proposals from
> different firms.  So the firms write the proposal and try to get the
> contract.  They used to be a page or two pre-computer.  However, with
> the advent of the computer, and especially DTP, firms had to make more
> elaborate proposals to be noticed and compete effectively.  So
> basically, computers have enhanced the quantity of the work done, but we
> have not really incorporated them enough to see a real time savings.
> 
> 
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