From: reynolds@rightbrain.com (Jack Reynolds)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.advocacy
Subject: Re: Question #2 "Are Macintosh Users Really Happy?"
Date: 19 Aug 92 00:33:03 GMT
Reply-To: reynolds@rightbrain.com

In article <1992Aug13.231003.494@expovision.uucp> al@expovision.ogi.edu writes:

> Thank you Rightbrain for inviting my curiosity. 
> I believe in your promises and have ordered your product. 

Thank you for your business and your support.

> Unlike NeXT, I hope that your policy will include a 30 day Money Back  
> Garantee. If it does not deliver what you promise then I can safely return  
> it to you.

PasteUp has a 30 day money back guarantee as do all of our products.

> If it does, you will seduce many Mac and PC owners in the best  
> possible manner.Offering a "superior" product and therefore presenting DTP  
> freaks like myself with a better reason for switching to NeXT.

That was the reason I started this thread.  We are counting on customers like  
you to become advocates for our products. This thread was intended to help  
educate customers as to the differences between the NeXT and Mac so that when  
armed with great application software like PasteUp, you can talk to some of the  
other issues.

> My first question: 
> Assuming that one year is sufficient for a programmer experienced in Unix,  
> Object, and C languages to mate the NeXT, why is it that some 4 years  
> later, we are still waiting for great high end softwares to come about?

Some really great apps have come out.  Sadly, many of them where not marketed  
properly and most people never realized how great they really were.

Developing a great app is only half the battle.  The other half is selling it.

> 
> My second question: 
> Has anyone outside of Rightbrain, used PasteUp yet? If so, would someone  
> with such experience please speak up and share with us some experiences  
> comparing PageMaker, Q-Express and PasteUp? I mean professionals who have  
> taken these three softwares to their limits. A vs A, B vs B and C vs C,  
> point for point.

We are using about 40 beta test sites.  They are under a non-disclosure  
contract with us not to discuss the product until we ship.
 
> Every computer user seems to take pride in his platform (sometimes due to  
> financial attitudes, sometimes due to intelligence, sometimes due to luck  
> or the lack of it) yet no one has been able to show us all that PasteUp IS  
> superior to page layout programs on other platforms, other than pitches  
> from Rightbrain. 

In order to provide more third party feedback, RightBrain is donating 1 copy of  
PasteUp to every NeXT user group.  As part of the deal, the user group has to  
write a review about PasteUp.  I will put copies of all of the reviews on the  
archive sites and circulate them around in various ways.

Also, RightBrain is pursuing magazine reviews that compare PasteUp to other  
page layout products on other platforms.  You may have noticed a teaser in  
Publish Magazine, or a review in Page Magazine (Germany).

> What good is a software if it is mediocre? As far as I know there's a  
> wealth of both on all platforms.

Mediocre software is bad for everyone.  In my opinion, cross platform software  
has to be mediocre because it can only provide the feature set of the lowest  
common denominator in hardware and operating systems.

PasteUp was designed around everything NeXT.  It does things that are flat out  
not possible on other platforms and it does enough of them to blow away Mac and  
PC users.

Things like:

	Copying and pasting attributes (14 in all)
	A find panel that can find and replace color
	Transparent object positioning
	Infinite undo and redo

> Is Steve Jobs another Russ Perrot? Is the disease contagious? Will he quit  
> or be driven away from his convictions and, at the very least, deceive his  
> followers? 

I can't speak for Steve Jobs.  I can tell you that I won't quit.  When I asked  
other people in the office, they said that they're not going to quit either.

> My choice is simple at the end:  I'll either keep on digging or simply  
> bail out.

Keep on digging.

--
Jack Reynolds, VP Sales
RightBrain Software, 132 Hamilton Avenue, Palo Alto, California USA  94301
(415)326-2974 or(415)326-2977 Fax
reynolds@rightbrain.com
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