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From: steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Is Apple Dumping Mac IIs?
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Date: 13 Oct 89 16:57:41 GMT
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In article <963@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM> ngg@bridge2.3Com.com (Norman Goodger) writes:
#>
#>It appears to me that you like many others have expections that are way to
#>high for what you are getting. Technology will always continue to advance
#>much faster than you or I would like. I would like to get a IIci (have a cx)
#>but the price difference is to high. Eventually that will change as yet
#>even more faster and higher priced perhaps CPU's come out. 

Plainly you have misunderstood my expectation. I think it's fine
that technology is improving so fast even though the Kaypro II I
paid $700 for is now considered a piece of junk. What I want is
the availability of that technology on the Mac II platform. I
don't think it's unreasonable to expect--when you buy a machine
with six empty slots, with the selling point that the slots will
be used in part for technology improvements--that all the new
improvements would be made available through the slots at a
reasonable cost. My Mac is only 2 years old after all.

#>Where does the ill will come from? It comes from those (IMHO) that would
#>prefer it seems for Apple to sit on its hands and fall behind technologically
#>just so they can say they have the latest and greatest and keep that title
#>for a while...ego perhaps?

Again, you're turning things upside down. I don't object to the
new technology. I just want a reasonable upgrade path. Apparently
there isn't one to get my Mac II to the i-stage, only as far as
x. Apple apparently is choosing (somebody correct me if there are
more reasonable justifications for what they are doing) to
upgrade its technology in ways which force consumers to buy
entirely new machines to get the latest technology, rather than
to upgrade through plug-in boards in the slots that Apple sold
them. What I want is a platform which can be gradually improved
without scrapping it over a reasonable period of time, more than
2 years, certainly less than 10.

#>Apple is in the business to make money, always has been, always will be.
Yes, Apple is in the business of making money, but I and my
employer are not necessarily in the business of helping Apple
make money at our expense. As people have pointed out, Apple
can get away with a lot right now because it has no competition.
If and when that changes, Apple is setting itself up for
abandonment by a lot of dissatisfied users.

Steve Goldfield