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From: jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova)
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Subject: Re: A SIGN FROM APPLE!
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Date: 17 Sep 90 16:07:11 GMT
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In article <1938@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church) writes:
>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? 

   Apple's policy for many years has been one of non-disclosure, for the
reason below and because of "vaporware" scares.  Perhaps Sculley has a plot?

>        Why would anyone buy a computer when the company is about to
>release a better one? 

   Ahem... PURELY CONJECTURE here... perhaps Sculley WANTS that effect, maybe
he wants people to not buy Apple ][s. "Here, see what's coming?  Just wait
a bit and you can buy a <dah dah dah dum!> Macintosh! Aren't you thrilled?"

>                      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.

   Fruits do come in many flavors... Apple, Osborne, Boy George...
(please, Take it for what it is, a little poor humor!)
   Seriously, I can't figure those marketing boys out.  It's almost as if
the Mac people think they're selling little bits of heaven.

>bob church
>bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu

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