Re: Last Thoth?

From	Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system, comp.sys.mac.comm, comp.sys.mac.apps
Subject	Re: Last Thoth?
Date	2013-12-09 19:01 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<091220131901576072%michelle@michelle.org> (permalink)
References	<091220130719558666%michelle@michelle.org> <slrnlabpf5.1kh9.g.kreme@mbp55.local> <091220130949360236%lloydp21@live.com> <l856cp$818$1@dont-email.me> <vilain-D48CAF.13250809122013@news.individual.net>

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In article <vilain-D48CAF.13250809122013@news.individual.net>, Michael
Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> wrote:

> > I will make some suggestions to him about how he might find enough 
> > success, but in the end I doubt it will make a difference.  :(
> 
> As callous as it sounds, isn't this how the free market works? How many 
> great products just died because people didn't know about them?  Claris 
> made all these great products that were perfect in their price points 
> only to have the company vanish and the products killed off.  Except for 
> Filemaker, which actually became something.

It wasn't that people didn't know about Claris products; it's that
FileMaker Pro produced such an abnormal percentage of Claris' income
and profits that it was financially in the best interest of Claris and
Apple to kill off everything but FileMaker and ClarisWorks. They were a
strange pair of products to be produced by the same company, so Apple
brought ClarisWorks into itself and renamed it AppleWorks.

Oh, and the company didn't vanish; it merely changed its name.

Thread

Last Thoth? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-12-09 07:19 -0700
  Re: Last Thoth? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-09 15:46 +0000
    Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-09 09:49 -0600
      Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-09 13:40 -0600
        Re: Last Thoth? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-09 14:46 -0500
          Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-09 13:52 -0600
            Re: Last Thoth? Guenther Fischer <never@spam.invalid> - 2013-12-09 21:09 +0100
              Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-09 14:16 -0600
              Re: Last Thoth? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-10 01:53 +0100
                Re: Last Thoth? David Ritz <dritz@mindspring.com> - 2013-12-09 19:37 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-10 04:39 +0000
                Re: Last Thoth? Tim McNamara <timmcn@bitstream.net> - 2013-12-22 15:19 -0600
          Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-09 13:25 -0800
            Re: Last Thoth? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-10 01:57 +0100
        Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-09 13:24 -0800
        Re: Last Thoth? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-09 13:25 -0800
          Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-09 15:36 -0600
            Re: Last Thoth? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-09 16:40 -0500
              Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-09 15:50 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-10 10:00 -0800
          Re: Last Thoth? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-12-09 19:01 -0700
  Re: Last Thoth? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-09 16:49 +0100
  Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-09 07:50 -0800
    Re: Last Thoth? M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-12-10 03:00 -0500
      Re: Last Thoth? A N Niel <anniel@nym.alias.net.invalid> - 2013-12-10 09:19 -0700
        Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-10 12:40 -0600
        Re: Last Thoth? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-13 20:53 +0100
          Re: Last Thoth? Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2013-12-13 16:38 -0500
            Re: Last Thoth? Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2013-12-13 17:29 -0500
      Re: Last Thoth? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2013-12-10 12:22 -0500
      Re: Last Thoth? Doc O'Leary <droleary@7usenet2013.subsume.com> - 2013-12-10 11:55 -0600
        Re: Last Thoth? M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-12-10 21:59 -0500
          Re: Last Thoth? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-11 05:12 +0000
      Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-10 10:02 -0800
      Re: Last Thoth? MalcolmO <user@domain.invalid> - 2013-12-14 16:25 -0500
  Re: Last Thoth? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-09 09:08 -0800
    Re: Last Thoth? "J.P. Kuypers" <Jean-Pierre.Kuypers@adresse.invalid> - 2013-12-09 19:58 +0100
    Re: Last Thoth? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-19 12:50 +0000
      Re: Last Thoth? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2013-12-19 08:44 -0500
        Re: Last Thoth? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-19 14:06 +0000
          Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-19 17:31 -0600
            Re: Last Thoth? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-20 01:48 +0000
              Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-19 20:12 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-20 02:35 +0000
                Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-19 20:40 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2013-12-20 02:53 +0000
                Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-19 20:58 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2013-12-19 19:27 -0800
                Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-19 21:49 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-19 22:49 -0800
                Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-19 22:48 -0800
                Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-20 07:56 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-20 07:26 -0800
                Re: Last Thoth? M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-12-20 15:24 -0500
                Re: Last Thoth? "Mr. Strat" <mrstrat@nospam.gmail.com> - 2013-12-21 06:43 -0800
                Re: Last Thoth? M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-12-21 10:48 -0500
                Re: Last Thoth? Matthew Lybanon <lybanon@earthlink.net> - 2013-12-21 10:44 -0600
                Re: Last Thoth? M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-12-21 12:34 -0500
                Re: Last Thoth? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-21 19:33 +0000
                Re: Last Thoth? Charles <fort514@mac.com> - 2013-12-21 22:25 -0500
                Re: Last Thoth? Laszlo Lebrun <lazlo_lebrun@googlemail.com> - 2013-12-22 20:24 +0100
                Re: Last Thoth? Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2013-12-20 11:34 -0500
                Re: Last Thoth? Lloyd  E Parsons <lloydp21@live.com> - 2013-12-20 11:01 -0600
      Re: Last Thoth? Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2013-12-19 15:00 +0000
      Re: Last Thoth? Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2013-12-19 10:30 -0800
        Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-19 10:32 -0800
  Re: Last Thoth? Guenther Fischer <never@spam.invalid> - 2013-12-09 18:53 +0100
    Re: Last Thoth? "J.P. Kuypers" <Jean-Pierre.Kuypers@adresse.invalid> - 2013-12-09 19:50 +0100
      Re: Last Thoth? gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2013-12-09 13:04 -0800
        Re: Last Thoth? M-M <nospam.m-m@ny.more> - 2013-12-10 03:03 -0500
  Re: Last Thoth? Invid Fan <invid@loclanet.com> - 2013-12-09 13:40 -0500
  Re: Last Thoth? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2013-12-09 18:36 -0800
    Re: Last Thoth? Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2013-12-09 20:13 -0700
      Re: Last Thoth? Don Bruder <dakidd@sonic.net> - 2013-12-09 19:22 -0800

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