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From: grega@hpcuhd.HP.COM (Number 6)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Continuing commitment(tm) (was Re: Woz giveth, Scully taketh away)
Message-ID: <107870003@hpcuhd.HP.COM>
Date: 2 Oct 90 20:14:32 GMT
References: <28387@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Organization: The Village
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bobl@pro-graphics.cts.com (Bob Lindabury):

>Well, it seems to me that the Apple // is now defunct.  Apple isn't going to
>produce any more cpu's with "Apple //xx" on it you can rest assured.  The
>closest you will be able to come is "Mac XXXX".   So, I suggest you all stop
>bitching about it because all the bitching in the world isn't going to change
>matters any.  

That last statement is simply not true.  Companies, especially big companies,
listen real hard when users bitch and moan.  They have to.  

In this particular case, I heard the same rhetoric several years after the
release of the Apple II+.  The rest, as they say, is history, but the
only fact that changed the history of the Apple II line into the history
that you're all complaining about now is the fact that Apple II users
complained, bitched, moaned, and (most importantly) kept buying.

This is the only language which Apple or any large firm will listen to.

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