Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pro-exchange.cts.com!sschneider From: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Not neccessarily Message-ID: <8910161040.AA09915@trout.nosc.mil> Date: 15 Oct 89 19:49:16 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 38 > Ppath: pro-exchange!sschneider > From: Yong Su Kim > Message-Id: <8910141757.AA20008@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu> > To: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com > Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line > Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple > In-Reply-To: <8910140920.AA29715@trout.nosc.mil> > Organization: Columbia University > Yes, but the thing is, are people willing to pay for the technology > that they will not need. If you think about it, the average Apple II > user uses the computer to do some word processing, maybe DTP and to > play games. They do not really want to pay so much money for a > Macintosh when they can do what they want with an Apple II. > Since the Apple still sells, Apple should support it and promote the > advantages of an Apple II over a Mac so that people can make their own > decisions. Forcing everyone to buy an expensive Mac might boost sales > in the short term but in I don't think that it will be very beneficial > in the long run. Why in the world would anyone think that a company would mind selling expensive, unused technology to a user? And if it came to games, word-proccessing, etc, (even though this is an Apple feed) there are machines out there made by "other" companies that make Apple machines look sick... (I don't own any but I have used them) Long run?? You expect foresight from a company that tried to hoard $200 million in memory chips and got them shoved up the old wahzoo??? /steve +===========================================================================+ | UUCP: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider COMPU$ERVE : 75166,2544 | | ARPA: crash!pro-exchange!sschneider@nosc.mil GENIE : sschneider | | INET: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com APLINK.PE : | +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | The RainForest @ 305-434-4927 / PO Box 841422, Pembroke Pines, Fl, 33084 | +===========================================================================+