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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Will Mac's go the way of Apple II's
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Date: 2 Oct 90 18:51:01 GMT
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In article <143400015@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, wogg0743@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
|> 
|> Hey, Mac-dudes!  You all should be rallying behind the Apple II and complaining
|> about Apple's failure to support it.  Why?  Because if Apple will do what it is
|> doing to its namesake, it will do the same thing to the Mac in five years or so.
[...]
The Mac should have _replaced_ the Apple II years ago. Only now under extreme
pressure from the high end (Sparcstation and NeXT) and the low end (Windows 3)
is Apple considering moving Mac pricing low enough to kill off the Apple II.

If you could have a Mac for the same price, would you want an Apple II?

Of course not.

In five years from now, will the Mac look a bit dated? It already does.

Apple is late in bringing out a credible alternative future model. The Mac
is a much better design than the IBM PC, and Apple has blown its advantage
by failing to buy market share. It's not too late to recover. But to suppose
that no major change in strategy, only incremental upgrades, will do for the
next 5 years is a touch unrealistic.
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu