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ice@socrates.umd.edu (Fredrik Nyman) writes:

>And yes, $4K buys you quite a lot.  You certainly don't get all the
>NeXT goodies (NeXTstep, devtools, bundled apps), but for all I know
>most real-world *users* don't care much about how easy IB is.  

Most real-world *users* who have used NeXTs and Suns will tell you
that the NeXT has a far superior user interface.  You are right,
users don't care that apps are 10 times faster to build with IB.
They do care that:
- IB helps programmers to create applications that are CONSISTENT.
- The NeXTSTEP interface is vastly more intuitive to users (esp.
people who are not used to managing .twmrc files and such) than
OpenLook.  

I still say - show the average end-user (in business, or education,
or wherever) a typical NeXTSTEP app and a typical Solaris app and
you will see that the response indicates that people like NeXTs
better.  Until NeXTSTEP is ported to Sun equipment (God forbid),
NeXT machines will have a clear advantage, at least to me.

>I hope NeXT will announce new hardware *soon*.  Sun has already
>announced that they will switch to Display PostScript, and once they
>do, the SparcClassic will become *very* attractive for DTP since it
>will offer almost twice the power of a NSTC for half the price *and*
>upgradeability.

What is power if users aren't productive?
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