Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!ginosko!usc!apple!mattd From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Dealers and Sys. 5.0 Summary: You got us. Message-ID: <35829@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 23 Oct 89 01:14:47 GMT References: <21147@gryphon.COM> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 36 In article <21147@gryphon.COM> phack@pnet02.gryphon.com (Phil Hackett) writes: >Don't post dealers that support Apple II's on the net! Apple Corporation may >get word of this and then ax that dealer. Apple is doing as much as possible, >without publicity, to kill the II. Actions speak louder than words. > >Phil > >UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!phack >INET: phack@pnet02.gryphon.com Well, Phil, what can I say? You got us cold. You've figured Apple out. All the millions of dollars spent in development of the Apple II Video Overlay Card, System Software 5.0.2 and the revisions to the Apple IIgs and IIc, as well as the addition of AppleTalk networking to the Apple II line has all been a giant sting operation. We developed all this stuff, thorougly documented it, and continue to promote it through offers (like this Christmas's "Take home a IIgs free for two months" promotion) just so we can track all the dealers who sell this technology to enrich the lives of their customers, so we can pull the plug on them and force them through some legal means I don't quite understand to sell products to people who don't want them. Don't spread this around, though, or other people will figure it out. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Matt Deatherage, Apple Computer, Inc. | "The opinions expressed in this tome Send PERSONAL mail ONLY (please) to: | should not be construed to imply that Amer. Online: Matt DTS | Apple Computer, Inc., or any of its ThisNet: mattd@apple.com | subsidiaries, in whole or in part, ThatNet: (stuff)!ames!apple!mattd | have any opinion on any subject." Other mail by request only, please. | "So there." -----------------------------------------------------------------------------