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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Woz giveth, Scully taketh away
Message-ID: <13992@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 2 Oct 90 03:32:40 GMT
References: <181@alchemy.UUCP>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <181@alchemy.UUCP> bbs@alchemy.UUCP (BBS Administration) writes:
>I ... want to ... obtain an understanding of why the Mac is such a hated
>machine by people who are fans of the Apple II.

Here are what I think are the main reasons:
	1.  The Macintosh is perceived as aimed at "appliance users"
	rather than hobbyists and other do-it-yourselfers.
	2.  Programming the Macintosh for simple applications is much
	harder than programming the Apple II in AppleSoft BASIC.  This
	of course is also an argument against the IIGS's desktop
	environment.
	3.  Macintoshes were not expandable until recently, while all
	Apple IIs except the //c (and //c+) supported add-on peripherals,
	simple controls via the game-port connector, etc.
	4.  Macintoshes did not provide color displays until recently.
	5.  Macintoshes were targeted at business applications rather
	than personal computing.
	6.  Apple's emphasis on the Macintosh at the expense of the
	Apple II line crippled commercial support for the Apple IIs that
	people had purchased.

Note that I'm not making these arguments myself, merely trying to convey
what I think the most common reasons are that have any validity.  (There
are undoubtedly some invalid reasons too.)