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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: A SIGN FROM APPLE!
Summary: Why do they do this?
Message-ID: <1938@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 16 Sep 90 13:51:00 GMT
References: <139800024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <139800024@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, rjv21207@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
     [ this is part of a "letter" from Sculley ]
> During 1990 and 1991, Apple will introduce several new
> entry-level MACHINTOSH [emphasis mine...] computers, and at least one will have
> Apple II emulation capabilites..."

While other companies fire or even prosecute their employees for releasing 
information about upcoming machines Apple makes a policy of it. Why does
Apple keep telling people that there is a better computer just around the
corner? Why would anyone buy a computer when the company is about to
release a better one? This isn't limited to the higher ups. I was in the
local dealers a few weeks ago and heard a customer ask about buying two
Apples so that she could communicate from her office to her home. The
salesperson told her that he would wait a year for the new machine which
will have better capabilities for this. My thought was "who's going to pay
your rent for the next year"? I like Apple but sometimes I thing they hired
Osborne to run marketing.

bob church
bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu