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With this issue we wrap up our look at interesting products from
   the Macworld Expo in San Francisco. Mark Anbinder passes on news
   of price reductions and rebates from Apple, Pythaeus provides
   the latest Duo market share news, and we look in depth at the
   concepts behind Apple's eWorld and other online services.
   Finally, the real way Apple could change the world with the
   Macintosh.

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Topics:
    MailBITS/07-Feb-94
    Duos Rule
    Quadras Make Way For New Machines
    More Products from Macworld
    An Electronic World
    The Apple and the Internet
    Reviews/07-Feb-94

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**MacFair** -- Those in New York City who haven't been frozen to
  the quick should mark their calendars for the New York MacFair,
  which runs from 9 AM to 4 PM on 26-Feb-94 at the New York Marriott
  Marquis Hotel. Sponsored by Apple and the New York Macintosh
  Users' Group, the fair features PowerPC demonstrations, numerous
  hardware and software vendor booths, a juried exhibition of
  computer designed art, and a day long series of seminars and
  panels with Macworld Magazine personalities such as David Pogue,
  Steven Levy, and science fiction writer William Gibson. Admission
  is $10, or $6 for NYMUG members. Michael Ginsburg --
  [e-mail]


Duos Rule
---------
  by Pythaeus

  Some recent data from Dataquest confirms what many people have
  believed all along - that the PowerBook Duo is the best selling
  subnotebook computer in the U.S. and Europe. The definition of a
  subnotebook is a matter of some argument; some people consider it
  a computer under 4.4 pounds (which eliminates the Duo at 4.7
  pounds), but others consider any portable without a floppy to be a
  subnotebook. That's the criteria Apple appears to use, and since
  the weight of the 68040 Duos won't change from the existing Duos,
  it will have to do.

  Based on Dataquest's analysis of subnotebook market shares through
  the first three quarters of 1993 (the most current data
  available), the PowerBook Duo held a 38 percent market share in
  the U.S. and a 29 percent market share in Europe against other
  subnotebooks. Since Apple's shipments doubled in the fourth
  quarter with the introduction of the PowerBook Duo 250 and 270c,
  it's likely that the company not only maintained but improved its
  market share for all of 1993.

  Dataquest does not break down Pacific area subnotebook sales by
  vendor, but it's likely that the Duo lead holds on a worldwide
  basis. This data is important not only as an acknowledgment of
  Apple's current strength, but also when taken in context of the
  market projections for subnotebooks over the next few years.
  Dataquest projects the notebook market as a whole to grow at an
  average annual rate of 21 percent from 1993 to 1996, but during
  this same period the subnotebook market will explode at an average
  annual rate of 94 percent.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda


Quadras Make Way For New Machines
---------------------------------
  by Mark H. Anbinder, News Editor -- [e-mail]
     Technical Support Coordinator, BAKA Computers

  Various media reports tell us that Apple's upcoming PowerPC Macs
  will arrive in mid-March. This will no doubt mean a shuffling of
  Apple's product line, and the existing Quadra systems will likely
  move out of the high end, or out of the lineup entirely in some
  cases. (In fact, this is likely to be a more dramatic shuffling
  than any since the Quadras first arrived on the scene.)

  One clue that the Quadras will be making way is Apple USA's dual
  announcement today of new pricing for many Quadra systems, and
  special rebate offers for some systems. The new prices take effect
  today, and the rebate offers run from today through 31-Mar-94.

  Apple's price reductions cover the high-end portion of the Quadra
  line, including most configurations of the Quadra 650, 800, 840AV,
  and 950 (including the Quadra 950 Publishing Configuration). The
  Quadra 605 and 610 are not affected; Apple reduced pricing on the
  Quadra 660AV last week.

  Meanwhile, those purchasing certain Quadra systems and a
  qualifying printer will be eligible to receive a $150 rebate by
  mail. (This is not an instant, or point-of-sale, rebate, as some
  recent Apple promotions have been.) Quadra 605 purchasers will
  receive a $150 rebate if they purchase any current LaserWriter
  printer or a StyleWriter II, and Quadra 650 purchasers will
  receive a $150 rebate if they purchase any current LaserWriter
  model. The computer and printer need not be purchased at the same
  time, but each must be purchased between 07-Feb-94 and 31-Mar-94.

  For those who see no need to wait for a PowerPC Mac, but who have
  been waiting for prices to drop, now's your chance! If any of
  these Quadra models are being discontinued, Apple may already have
  stopped making more, and some machines could be in short supply in
  the days preceding the PowerPC introduction.

  If you're just waiting to be able to plunk down your cash for a
  PowerPC Mac, the news is good for you, too. Pythaeus tells us that
  Apple's stock of the new models is approaching the levels of most
  machines at their introduction dates, and growing quickly. If
  that's true, the wait may be almost over.

  Information from:
    Apple propaganda
    Pythaeus


More Products from Macworld
---------------------------
  I have a short attention span, and I almost forgot to finish my
  look at some of the more interesting programs that I saw at
  Macworld San Francisco. Again in no particular order...


**Arrange** your life with Common Knowledge's new personal
  information manager. Arrange sports an intriguing interface that
  links different types of information, including names and
  addresses, appointments, to do lists, text and graphic notes, and
  even external files. I was impressed by Arrange's flexibility and
  by clever features such as the Grabber, an extension that grabs
  whatever you have selected and pastes it into your Arrange Home
  File, whether or not Arrange is running. Unfortunately, Arrange
  won't fit into my life for the moment since it's limited to 16K of
  text in a field, and both the Import function and the Grabber
  accept only 4K. Sorry folks, but my personal information is often
  quite a bit larger than 4K. I'd like to see at least the standard
  32K limit, and preferably no limit at all. The introductory price
  is $199, retail is $349, and there's a demo at the URL below.

ftp://sumex-aim.stanford.edu/info-mac/app/arrange-11-demo.hqx

  Kudos to Common Knowledge for acknowledging a nasty bug in Arrange
  1.1. In a letter sent to registered owners, Common Knowledge warns
  of several actions that can result in a message saying, "Sorry,
  Arrange has unexpectedly run out of memory. Any unsaved work will
  be lost." after which Arrange quits. To work around this error
  (and save or auto-save frequently in case you forget) avoid using
  the left arrow in the calendar title bar to move to an earlier
  week for calendar views after 01-Feb-94. Also avoid changing from
  a "By month" view to a "By week" view using the pop-up menu at the
  top of the calendar title bar for months beginning with Feb-94.
  Bugs happen, but only conscientious companies go out of their way
  to report them to their users to prevent lost work and
  frustration. And of course, the upgrade to 1.1.1 will be sent free
  to all registered users once it's done. More companies should be
  so thoughtful. Common Knowledge -- 415/325-9900 -- 415/325-9600
  (fax) -- [e-mail]


**Cal**, from Thought I Could, is an interesting combination of
  calculator and calendar. Although Cal reportedly offers a full set
  of the sort of functions we all like in calculators (such as
  two-level clearing, memory, and a negate button that flips the
  sign of the current number), its most interesting feature is that
  it can both speak and listen, although listening requires an AV
  Mac. No idea how powerful the calendar functions will be, but I
  hear that you will be able to completely customize Cal's look with
  Wallpaper patterns. Cal lists for $79.95, but costs $49.95 on
  pre-release pricing and comes with a $5 discount for members of
  user groups, CompuServe, AppleLink, and Prodigy. Thought I Could
  -- 212/673-9724 -- 212/260-1194 -- [e-mail]


**ProFiles** from Dayna may ease the lives of those of us who
  regularly work with large numbers of files scattered across
  multiple hard drives or fileservers. ProFiles is nominally a
  Finder replacement, and you can do much of what you can do in the
  Finder in ProFiles, but instead of creating a rigid folder
  structure, you create multiple documents, each of which provides a
  different view of files on your hard disk. For instance, if you
  wanted to see all of your applications, it's a simple search,
  after which you can save that document to provide instant access
  to that virtual structure. Similarly, it's easy to create more
  complex sets of files, and ProFiles supports Macintosh Drag and
  Drop, so you can even drag files and folders into its window from
  the Finder to add them. You have all the tools you'd expect, such
  as sorting, copying, moving, and deleting, and ProFiles includes a
  few nice additions, such as the capability to find orphaned
  aliases. I don't think ProFiles is for everyone, since it's best
  when you don't quite know where a set of files is stored, or when
  you don't control the structure of files on a Mac. However,
  consultants and tech support folks who must work on unknown Macs
  should definitely take a look at ProFiles. I can't think of better
  tool for exploring and reorganizing (for yourself) someone else's
  hard drive such that they don't come after you and demand that you
  put it back the way it was. ProFiles costs $129, and Dayna
  promises a PowerPC version when the Power Macs ship. Dayna --
  801/269-7394 -- [e-mail]


**More Doublers** -- Symantec, which last year purchased Fifth
  Generation Systems, which had in turn previously purchased Salient
  Software, announced DiskDoubler 4.0 and SuperDoubler 1.0, a $109
  bundle of DiskDoubler 4.0, AutoDoubler 2.0, and CopyDoubler 2.0.
  SuperDoubler offers no new functionality but the three utilities
  have always worked well together. Upgrades from any of the three
  individual utilities are $39.99, and AutoDoubler and CopyDoubler
  will no longer be sold separately. The $79.95 DiskDoubler 4.0,
  however is a significant upgrade to Salient's original Finder-
  level compression program. Enhancements include ever better
  compression and speed, a compression queue, the capability to make
  archives, and an archive browser window. Background compression,
  SEA creation, and integration with AutoDoubler remain from
  previous versions. Symantec -- 800/441-7234 -- 503/334-7474 (fax)


**WriteNow 4.0** from WordStar (but still developed by the same
  people who worked on it at T/Maker) reportedly offers the same
  fast speed, small size, and penurious RAM requirements, but adds a
  slick table maker, imports EPS, PICT, and TIFF graphics directly,
  can optimize itself for PowerBook usage by loading more of itself
  into RAM, supports 88 colors and greys for text, adds an Insert
  Document feature that essentially pastes one document into
  another, and includes a Merge Helper for simplifying persnickety
  mail merges. Upgrades for registered users are $29.95 for a
  limited time; list price is $119. WordStar Upgrades - 800/843-2204
  -- 800/582-8000 (fax)


**Popup Folder** from Inline Software reduces the amount of time
  you spend navigating through a myriad of Finder folders. It turns
  every folder, either on your desktop or in SF Dialogs, into a
  hierarchical menu. Want to store a file several levels down? Just
  drag it onto the highest level folder you can see, navigate down
  the hierarchical menu until you reach your destination, and then
  drop the file. Popup Folder can display small icons on the desktop
  to make it a more conducive place for storing folders. Popup
  Folder also makes your Apple menu hierarchical, not that that's
  particularly new. My main potential concern with Popup Folder (and
  it hasn't been released yet) is that hierarchical menus are
  efficient, but a mega-pain to use. I recommend that you use
  something like a trackball click-lock feature or the sticky menus
  feature of Now Menus to avoid the long drag to navigate a number
  of hierarchical menus. Those with hand and wrist problems will
  have major troubles otherwise, since dragging is one of the
  hardest operations to perform due to the added pressure on the
  button while moving. Inline Software -- 800/453-7671 -- 203/435-
  4995


**Yet another utility package** called ALLright Enhancements comes
  from MSA. ALLright includes modules for toggling and instantly
  displaying Balloon Help, a version of COPYright, MSA's original
  background copying utility, what appears to be a clone of Super
  Boomerang, an extension manager, a limited macro utility, a
  hierarchical Apple menu utility, a sticky note utility, a desktop
  printer utility that lets you quickly switch between printers from
  a Finder menu, and a sound utility for playing asynchronous event-
  driven sounds. I haven't seen the program yet, but each module is
  independent, so you can install just the ones you want. Although
  ALLright doesn't excite me since none of the included utilities
  break new ground, it sounds like a solid package that some people
  should like. MSA -- 900/366-4622 -- 412/471-7170 -- 412/471-7173
  (fax) -- [e-mail]


An Electronic World
-------------------
  Apple's eWorld was one of the most loudly trumpeted announcements
  at Macworld, but it will take a few months before we'll know how
  the electronic gold will pan out for Apple. The demos at the show
  were courtesy of HyperCard, and the actors could merely point at
  Apple employees who knew little more. Sigh. From what I've been
  able to gather, eWorld is based on the same technology as America
  Online, albeit with some changes Apple specifically required. One
  of the claims to fame is a vaunted interface that models a real
  city (sounds like a graphical Free-Net so far), so if you want to
  read TidBITS, you'd click on the Newsstand. Sounds fine, but my
  experience with such systems is that they map badly to the
  tremendous quantity of information available.

  Although all the commercial online services differ in small ways,
  they all essentially offer email, discussion forums, file
  libraries, and real-time chatting. Prodigy attempted to change
  this model and was soon forced back toward the mold by its
  customers. So as much as eWorld's interface may set it apart
  slightly, in the end, it must struggle to offer anything other
  than the standard features (not that there's anything wrong with
  those features - they're what most people want). eWorld has its
  connection with Apple going for it and is slated to supplant
  AppleLink (a change that I have yet to hear anyone mourn). In
  fact, AppleLink userids are already pre-reserved on eWorld. Given
  AppleLink's exorbitant 9,600 bps price of $37 per hour, eWorld's
  prices are fairly reasonable at $8.95 for two hours per month and
  then either $7.90 or $4.95 per hour after that, depending on the
  time of day you connect.

  I must admit to some concern over eWorld's potential interface.
  First, it's based on America Online, which is great for novices,
  but stinks for experienced users. I'd like to be able to select
  more than one message in AOL's FlashMail window at a time
  (multiple selection, can you imagine!) so I could delete them more
  quickly. Alternately, if AOL would pay attention to almost every
  other email package available, not to mention the Finder, they
  might set something up whereby you could trash a message and have
  it deleted later. Either way, I'm sick of confirming every stupid
  action like sending or deleting a message. I'm surprised they let
  me click the mouse button without asking if I really wanted to
  click the mouse button, or even better, popping up a system-
  stopping modal dialog that tells me that I've clicked the mouse
  button in case I hadn't realized. I won't get into my other
  interface or speed gripes with AOL (it takes something like three
  seconds to open a new mail window on my 660AV when I'm off-line!),
  other than to mention the fact that there's no way to use a
  shortcut to navigate past a high level. When I post the
  announcement for TidBITS each week, it involves navigating
  manually through something like seven windows. AOL doesn't use
  proper buttons, so QuicKeys can't automate it well, and I don't
  trust the windows to stay in the same place enough to bet on a
  QuicKeys Click macro.

  Second, eWorld's proposed city metaphor is all fine and nice but
  must include shortcuts for avoiding the metaphor. In real life you
  must get in your car and drive to the newsstand to buy a paper,
  but wouldn't everyone prefer it if you could just teleport there?
  Shortcuts, shortcuts, shortcuts! Part of the reason I'm haranguing
  about this is that an online service like America Online or eWorld
  is a community, and as such, can only thrive with a variety of
  users. By over-simplifying the interface, these services alienate
  the experienced user. I have accounts on every major online
  service other than Prodigy and GEnie, and frankly, the only ones I
  participate in are the Internet, CompuServe-ZiffNet/Mac, and
  occasionally the local user group's FirstClass BBS. Cost is
  immaterial - the reason I avoid Delphi and BIX and AOL and
  AppleLink as a participant in discussions is that it's too much
  trouble to use their cryptic and poorly-designed interfaces.
  FirstClass has a few problems but is quite usable, CompuServe and
  ZiffNet/Mac become easily accessible via Navigator's admittedly
  odd interface, and on the Internet I can use any one of three
  excellent Usenet newsreaders, NewsWatcher, Nuntius, or InterNews,
  although in practice I stick with NewsWatcher.

  My point is simple. Experienced users like helping beginners; it
  makes them feel needed. But if the interface is so stupid that it
  alienates the more experienced users, they won't bother to stick
  around to help, and the online community suffers. It's not that
  hard to design a good system for experienced users as well; it's a
  matter of providing as many shortcuts as possible and the
  capability to get on, grab stuff, and get off again quickly and
  automatically. Scripting is nice too. None of these features need
  interfere with the novice interface in any way - they can be
  layered on top quite easily if some thought is made from the
  beginning.

  Criticisms aside, I think eWorld will do fine, in part because the
  number of people coming online does not appear to be slowing down,
  and in part because eWorld will be the official access point to
  Apple for most people. eWorld will compete with America Online and
  the like, but its true attraction will be the niche market of
  Macintosh and Newton users who want to hang out where Apple hangs
  out. I see no need for another general service along the lines of
  CompuServe or Prodigy; instead I think we're more likely to see
  smaller services targeted at a specific demographic group. It's
  not surprising; as the number of users grows, it's easier to
  gather a group that all share something in common.

  That's the rationale behind WIRE, the Women's Information Resource
  and Exchange, a service based on FirstClass that costs $15 per
  month for two hours and additional hours at $2.50 per hour (with
  additional charges for those not in San Francisco and who use
  SprintNet). WIRE focuses on issues and information oriented toward
  women - men are welcome to add to the discussions, but the
  environment is specifically designed for women. WIRE supports
  Internet email and news now and plans to add more full-fledged
  Internet access soon. I don't know if WIRE has opened to the
  public just yet, but you can get more information from them at
  <[e-mail]> or call 415/615-8989.

  One possible complaint in regard to these niche services is that
  the same topics are available on the larger services, so why not
  get a CompuServe account and have the entire thing available as
  well as the single forum in which you're interested? That's a
  valid argument, but I suspect that the niche services, if run
  well, will do fine even still. Being smaller, they can react more
  quickly to customer demands and may provide higher-quality
  services than the less-focused services. Time will tell, as it
  always does, being incapable of keeping a secret.

  eWorld should open for business in the next few months,
  undoubtedly accompanied by major fanfare from the Apple propaganda
  teams. Then we can all see whether or not the fanfare is warranted
  and if Apple has paid attention to how a program's interface can
  significantly affect these concepts of community.


The Apple and the Internet
--------------------------
  I mentioned WIRE's Internet access above, and eWorld's people have
  said that they too plan to provide Internet gateways. That's good,
  if not surprising or exciting. Steven Levy of Macworld wrote a
  column in the March issue about how difficult it was for him to
  get Internet access and how awful it was to use once he got it. He
  then suggested that Apple should write the ultimate Internet
  application, whatever that might be, and basically give it away so
  as to link Apple's name irrevocably with the Internet.

  Levy's complaints about how he couldn't get a SLIP connection
  working after 10 hours with a master hacker are a bit of hyperbole
  - it's not necessarily possible to quickly set up a SLIP
  connection to all providers, but in general I can do it for a
  Northwest Nexus SLIP or PPP account in about 10 minutes. However,
  Levy hits on the basic problem of Internet access, which is that
  it's still related to where you live. Anyone can use Northwest
  Nexus via SLIP for $22.50 per month flat rate, but if you don't
  live near Seattle you must currently pay long distance charges
  which can range from $4.80 per hour to $15 per hour (the lower
  rate is possible if you call during off-peak hours and use one of
  the Sprint or MCI discount plans).

  So what Apple could do is to create a program that could dial an
  800 number to set up an account and at the same time retrieve all
  the nasty settings for MacTCP and PPP (no need to use SLIP if
  you're writing from scratch and controlling the server), along
  with settings for Eudora and NewsWatcher. Then make the Internet
  access available everywhere via one of the existing networks like
  SprintNet or Tymnet so people don't have to pay long distance
  charges. I'm not talking anything conceptually difficult here, and
  all without wasting any effort on creating a new service complete
  with discussion groups and chatting and email, since that all
  exists already on the Internet in profusion.

  One potential argument against my suggestion is that there's no
  way to control the content of Internet as a commercial service
  could. But in fact, does that matter? Commercial services
  essentially all sell time, and as long as people are calling
  specific numbers, it's easy to charge for the time. Creating new
  information resources on the Internet would be fine; they'd simply
  be available to far more people if desired, or limited to paying
  customers who connecting using the special telephone numbers. No
  worry there.

  However, and here's where Levy's article lapses, we do not need an
  ultimate Internet application from Apple. The connection is the
  only tricky part; after that there is a surplus of great software
  available on the nets, much of it for free. A smart company would
  make it more readily available, perhaps through a custom front end
  that nicely organized it and enabled single-click downloading, but
  there's little need for an ultimate Internet application. By the
  time the company was done, the Internet would have come up with
  some fabulous new service and the best tool to use it would once
  again be a clever little freeware application from John Norstad or
  Peter Lewis or Steve Dorner. That's good - why step on the
  individual programmers who can program circles around a ponderous
  commercial outfit?

  We don't need an integrated application, period. This is the age
  of modules, of component applications, not of feature-laden
  Godzilla programs that can do anything under the sun (except the
  one strange thing you want) but take two years to upgrade since
  they're so complex and integrated. The individual little
  applications that we have now are better, since they are
  increasingly able to work together to become more than the sum of
  the parts.

  So that's my advice for you, Apple. Make the connection to the
  Internet a no-brainer and then let people pick and choose among
  the tools that are already accessible. Steven Levy is right - by
  linking the words Macintosh and Internet, you would ensure your
  continued success. It's not as though there aren't a number of
  very bright people within Apple who participate in the Internet
  regularly and also have the right idea - listen to them. There's
  nothing wrong with eWorld, but it's inherently a little dull since
  we've seen it all before. If you want to change the world, Apple,
  look to the Internet. If you don't, someone else will, since as
  much as I'd like to think of myself as an extremely clever person,
  the basic idea is simple. And of course, I've just shared it with
  as many as 100,000 people, most of them already on the Internet.


Reviews/07-Feb-94
-----------------

* MacWEEK -- 31-Jan-94, Vol. 8, #5
    Typestry 2.0 -- pg. 43
    OptiMem 1.5.2 -- pg. 43

* InfoWorld -- 31-Jan-94, Vol. 16, #5
    MacTools 3.0 -- pg. 100
    Open Sesame 1.0.2 -- pg. 101


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