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From: NOWAKO09@SNYBUFVA.BITNET (APPLE //GS - THE POWER TO BE YOUR BEST)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple II / Mac discusson (was:Re:Official"No New Apple II's")
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Date: 6 Nov 90 00:30:00 GMT
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        I don't understand why Apple introduced the GS at all if it was
going to kill it with a line of "low cost" (uh hem) Macs four year later.
        Well, actually I do understand. After Wozniak left Jobs tried to
build the company into the giant it has become (and reverting from). He
couldn't do it lacking the necessary buisness ability to make a company grow
without crash and burn. Sooo, he hired John Scully who did have the knowledge,
but Scully became more than a consultant (ah hem) and in the ensuing confusion
know one knew who was staying or leaving let alone try and have a coherent
policy toward the computer that built the company. The Mac literally carved
itself into the computer world when it was introduced. No one (except Xerox)
had every seen anything like it...they gambled the company and it payed off,
sort of. While apple stopped acknowledging that people even bought computers
for there homes and started to fight with IBM for the business market, IBM
held off Apple with its GNP like assests and did and end run into the home
market that BUILT APPLE IN THE FIRST PLACE! So its not that the Apple IIgs
(or earlier IIs) are bad machines or slow or obsolete, its just that at the
time they needed to be marketed the most agressively they where barely
acknowledged because of the internal confusion at Apple. Now Apple is coming
back into the fight but with the Mac again. Oh well, the GS should have been
marketed head to head with the Amiga as a Creativity Machine, because its not
really a buisness computer...it can be used for that but I think thats a waste
of some outstanding sound and graphics. Let IBM do that stuff with bare bones
pickup truck computers. The GS is a Corevette. Not as fast as a Porshe or a
Ferrari but fast and fun and sexy just the same.
                                                - More than 'nuff said.
                                                - Joe Nowakowski
                                                - Nowako09@Snybufva
                                                  (bitnet)