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From: tomp@pro-cco.UUCP (Tom Peng)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: My opinion
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Date: 13 Nov 90 06:21:18 GMT
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This is what I would do if I am in John Sculley's shoe: 

Rename Apple IIgs to "Mac/Hobbists". Classify Mac/Hobbists as a
very-low-end-economic machine. The low end mac is not compatible with any
other mac, but this new Mac will receive all the prestige as a mac.

Since Apple IIgs is so similar to a Mac, porting programs shouldn't be major
hassle. If Apple IIgs should become a member of the Mac family and enjoyed its
prestige, we might even get popular software packages such as Pagemaker,
MicroSoft Works, and etc.

Have Apple label clearly the market which the new Mac/Hobbists is going to
compete (Amiga, Atari, MIDI, Multimedia, Video presentation, hobbists), the
Apple II family will intergrate nicely into the Mac family despite its
incompatibility with the Mac line.

Let's buy out Apple share, make me the president! :)

Comments, anyone?


|Tom Peng
|Author of GS/AC & GS LPPC
|U. of Toronto. Mechanical Engineering
|Debout, le damn de la terre!