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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: 18 Oct 89 00:23:09 GMT
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>> Are you implying that Apple is giving up on the personal/home/educational
>> computer market that others would love to take over?

I never imply anything. I either say it or I don't. And I didn't say they were
abandoning that market. However, I do get into the staff side of schools in my
job and all I see are Macs and IIgss... I do not see a whole heck of a lot of
//es... Since I have no idea of which message of mine you are replying to I am
unable to see where your thought proccesses went wrong. What I did say was
Apple has no =OBLIGATION= to improve an obsolete product (and they aren't) and
they =ARE= in the business to make MONEY. Doing things to make people happy
(read that as individual users) went the way of dinosaurs about 1984.... Apple
<in my opinion> has no obligation to do a darned thing for any of you other
than to guarantee that the product you buy is defect-free and will most likely
work as advertised in writing. Apple chose to make its upscale products able
to work on old programs but nobody ever said they "had" to do this. 

/steve

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