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From: rkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple's Non-Support of the GS
Message-ID: <823@mtune.ATT.COM>
Date: 3 Oct 90 14:03:10 GMT
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In article <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?
>.As for new software, I hear a lot of complaining out there,
>.why don't *YOU* write some of this software.  Apple has
>.supported the machine.  They've given us the video overlay
>.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.

Last time I heard any numbers thrown around, the A2 line was
responsible for ***ONE BILLION*** dollars income a year to
Apple.  Unless you're the gummint, that's pretty damn big bucks.
For a machine they haven't been doing much development for, that 
can't be hurting the bottom line any, any more than it did when 
it funded Jobs' Mac project.  And Steve Jobs is the reason my
next machine won't be a NeXT machine....

I'm hoping and praying that the announcements on the 19th will
NOT include the ]['s retirement notice, but I'm not holding my
breath.

						Bob Halloran
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