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From: asd@mace.cc.purdue.edu (Kareth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple's Non-Support of the GS
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Date: 2 Oct 90 22:18:58 GMT
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In <9017@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@hubbell.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:

>Why is everyone around here expecting Apple to support the
>Apple II line?  Is it Apple's responsibility to support a
>product which obviously makes them very little money?

Uh, figures sir, figures.  And get them from Apple.

>why don't *YOU* write some of this software.  Apple has
>supported the machine.  They've given us the video overlay

Yeah right <note sarcasm hopefully>

>card and the SCSI adapter card.  How many of you bought
>these cards?  Why should Apple spend lots of money promoting`
>a machine which doesn't make them much money.  If you want
>Apple to support the Apple II, go buy a bunch of machines!
>If they start selling, they will start supporting them.

That's a bunch of hogwash.  The Apple II line was the bread and butter
of the company.  EVERYTHING that is Apple now is due to that one
'obsolete' machine.  And don't give me any shit about Mac making it
the company it is, the Apple II put the Mac on the map!  If it hadn't
been for the for the II, the Mac would only exist in some Xerox
research labs.  And we HAVE been supporting, and buying Apple II's
since they came out, in droves!  Apple USED to support the II's, now
they don't worth squat.  Oh yeah, a video card that is perfectly
useless for the average everday folks.  A SCSI adapter that shoulda
been there LONG ago.  Gosh, just makes me want to jump up and down.

People aren't buying Apple II's BECAUSE Apple doesn't support it,
not because we aren't buying them.  And then Apple can turn around and
saying "people aren't buying them, let's not support em", and on and
on, until they can quit making them.  And why should developers
program for the II's?  If Apple isn't going to support them, why
should they?

The only way we are going to get Apple to support them, is by a card
adapter for the Mac, unfortunately.  There would have to be a HUGE
surge in purchasing Apple's, and people are just NOT going to buy
machines from a company that doesn't support them, offers extremely
obsolete hardware and prices it exobirantly, and whose software base
isn't the hotest.

Of course, I would LOVE to have Apple make me eat my words, but I
really don't think I'm in any danger of that, do you?

-k