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From: era@ncar.ucar.edu (Ed Arnold)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: future of the IIgs
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Date: 23 Aug 90 17:08:30 GMT
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Organization: Nat'l Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); Boulder, CO
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Thanks to the following persons for their responses to my question,
"Is Apple about to kill the IIgs?"  This question was asked because
that's essentially what a dealer in my area told me.

I received only 4 responses, with 3 out of 4 a resounding "no":

Raymond Lang <lang@rex.cs.tulane.edu>:
|The general drift of the discussion seems to be that Apple has no
|intentions of dropping the II line. In fact, they are actually
|starting to support it more. It seems the II Infinitum letter campaign
|had some effect, as well as their own observation that they were
|losing the low end of the market (i.e., they realized that the Apple II
|and the Mac were geared to different markets and that someone who
|choses not to buy an Apple II is probably not going to chose a Mac
|instead but rather another manufacturer's model).
|The IIgs was one of the top 10 best selling models in 1989; in other
|words, they're still making money on it---so why should they drop it.

Phil McDunnough <pmcd@nexus.yorku.ca>:
|  The rumour of the demise of the GS is not new, and is probably not true.
|Apple has publicly said it would continue making, selling and improving the
|GS while continuing to integrate it more closely with the Mac.
|  I am currently beta testing Public Folder GS. One will be able to boot the
|GS from a non-dedicated Mac with System 7.0 and HyperCard-GS will be released
|this year.
|  Of course anything is possible, but I highly suspect your dealer is not in
|touch with the GS world(if he sells only a few a year->mainly selling Macs to
|business.
|  What is "supposed" to happen in October is the introduction of the Ma
|Mac Classic(an SE basically at a + price), a 20MHz version of the ci
|with one slot and around $3500, a low cost 020 color Mac with a slot
|for a //e board(priced around $1500 without the board but with 4 or
|8 bit colour).

"H. Grant Delaney" <delaneyg@wnre.aecl.ca>:
|I don't know about the emulation board but sounds like the dealer is trying
|to do a deal on you.  No end for the apple II they sold more GSs than macs
|last year although they made less money on them.

dinl!inljeff.den.mmc.com!carnahan (Rich Carnahan):
|I heard the same thing from our Apple Rep at Martin.  He indicated the
|Apple II emulator board would be introduced sometime early next year.
|More's the pity.

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