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From: rmh@apple.com (Rick Holzgrafe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Left in Dust? (was: Adobe Type Manager)
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Date: 22 Sep 89 18:52:20 GMT
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I usually try to stay out of these flame wars, for two reasons: one, 
throwing gasoline on a fire rarely helps, and two, I work for Apple and so 
my private opinions might get construed as Apple policy, in spite of my 
disclaimer. But...

I thought that "the computer for the rest of us" meant it was easy for my 
old Auntie Phoebe to use a Mac: you don't have to be a techno-geek (like 
me :-) to understand it. I never thought it meant that a Macintosh was 
cheap (um, "inexpensive"). Since when was the Mac ever cheap?

I'll voice no opinion here about Apple's pricing; I'm biased because my 
profit share helps feed the baby. I just wonder if those of us in this 
computer-literate forum have forgotten who "the rest of us" are: not the 
poor, but the ignorant.

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