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From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re:  Ultima VI...sigh...
Summary: More unsupported opinions
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Date: 31 Aug 90 03:49:39 GMT
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In article <13698@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>I note that a local Electronics Boutique has dropped ALL Macintosh software,
>although they still have some Apple II and Commodore software.  Does that
>mean the Macintosh is officially dead?  :-)

Not yet.

The stores that I've looked at are actually stocking approximately the same
amounts of Apple II and Mac stuff.

Conclusion: if software sales == machine health, then the Macintosh is not
well... or the Apple II is a lot healthier than it appears.

I do find it interesting how IBM has managed to capture so much of the
entertainment market so quickly.  Apple threw out an entertainment machine
(no flames please... just pointing out that it's better for "fun" applications
than for heavyweight number-crunching) in favor of a desktop publishing
machine, so most of the software produced these days is PC-oriented (except
for word processors and drawing programs).  It probably hasn't affected Apple's
sales much, because of the Mac's reputation for ease-of-use.

But if you walked into a computer store, and saw 10 times as many titles for
IBM hardware as for Apple hardware (be it games or otherwise), which computer
would you buy?

(BTW, that's a good one to throw at Apple reps who hang out at college
campuses... we've got plenty of them here...)

If IBM can change the user-hostile aura surrounding their machines, it'll
be amusing to watch.  Can't wait for Windows 3.0 :-)

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fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
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