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From: fiddler%concertina@Sun.COM (Steve Hix)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line
Message-ID: <126419@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Date: 17 Oct 89 00:00:09 GMT
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In article <8910140920.AA29715@trout.nosc.mil>, sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) writes:
> 
> Why would =ANY= company (in its right mind) care to continue to develope
> for an obsolete <obsolete in the sense of type of CPU, clock, etc compared to
> what it available today> computer such as the Apple // when they can spend the
> same amount of money doing more with what is now state-of-the-art??? When
> something better than the MAC IIcx comes along for Apple <eventually all must
> pass> you'll hear the Mac users screaming just like the Apple // users are
> now. 

The screaming is already in progress.  Started when the Mac IIci was announced.

> =AND= Apple will ignore them then just as Apple is ignoring you now.

On the other hand, they have also announced an upgrade to the IIci for IIcx
owners.  And further development of the Mac is going on.

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