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From: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line
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Date: 15 Oct 89 19:26:16 GMT
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Comment to message from: jabernathy@pro-houston.cts.com (Joe Abernathy)

Hey Hey Hey... <Hi Joe!>
 
(By the way, thanks for correcting my spelling of develop in your reply.. :-) 
(I need an online spelling checker... hmmmm... now THERE'S an idea!)

I believe that one of us missed the point <probably me>... I didn't say that
the Apple // was worthless or obsolete... I said the technology was. Tell me
with a straight face that Steve Jobs neXt computer doesn't have a lot more
"bang for the buck" than the MAC IIcx that Apple has... And regardless of
peoples' opinion on SJ and his ego, et al, the man will pass away rich and
successful in old days that don't exist yet. 

I use an Apple//e daily on an average of eight hours a day (and I don't even
have a computer related job). I run a BBS on one and I still have two Apple
][+s sitting here on the floor doing absolutely nothing (the CMS-20 I have
won't run on a ][+ so I can't move the BBS to it.) I use AppleWRITER as a
matter of choice when writing stories, etc even though I have an IBM compat
with PC-Write (and a spelling checker and a word counter and a word-usage
analyser)  sitting in another room. I use them because that is what I can
afford at the moment. Money-not-withstanding, I'd be running a 486i with 16
Hayes VSM9600s and about 5 gigabytes of storage. From a business standpoint,
and Apple =IS= a business afterall, why should they bother with people like me
and upgrade Apple // technology for several hundred dollar sales when they can
sell new technology to new users <and techies> for 200-300 percent profit
margins on $4,000 - $8,000 machines. The world is not like the "old days"
where people cared about things. <look around at crime statistics to see what
I mean; look at kids today; look at -anything- today>

You people <and this is not a personal 'attack'> better realize that Steve
W. and Steve J. are =GONE= from the Apple world as are their original,
"HomeBrew Club" visions. IBM pissed on the PCJr and other 'original' IBM PCs
and make money hands over fist... IBM is a very successful (even if not well
liked on a personal user level) and Apple will be too. 

So we users over the last ten years <only five for me> made Apple GREAT; so
what? What's past is past and I know that Apple will "go for the gold" instead
of "buffing tarnished brass".... <And even though you are an Apple magazine
writer, you know it too...>

Maybe we can take over Apple and make Dave Lyons king... whadda ya think? 
<grin>

/steve
I know what I said but if you don't understand what I said in the way I said
it then I disavow anything I said and claim durress under the influence of
grandeur. <huh?... yeah; my thoughts exactly! :-}>


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