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From: sb@pnet91.cts.com (Stephen Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Sculley on Compu$erve
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Date: 2 Dec 90 08:30:08 GMT
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Alan H. Stein  (STEIN@CONNVM.BITNET) writes:

>I spend nearly an hour looking through messages to and from John Sculley
>on Compu$erve. Most of the messages to John could have been written by
>members of our list. Almost all went unanswered; the few answers from
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>lines, seemed to indicate that is no hope that apple will ever give any
>decent amount of support to the Apple II line.
>
>Sculley made it quite clear that Apple will never again sell a
>stand alone Apple II. And we all know that, if no new models are ever

Sculley isn't Apple. And he could (and may very well be) dumped. Then what?
Sculley has reigned while Apple's marketshare has blossomed, and is now
beginning to seriously atrophy. Apple will not be happy selling Mac Classics
and nothing else. And that's what they seem to be doing these days.

My point: Apple wants to make money. If they made money selling selling
standalone Apple II's, then they'll have to do it, despite Sculley or anyone
else there.

Puette (Apple USA Prez) said: "...we have no plans... to introduce new,
standalone Apple II models..."  He also said "... at this time..."

I don't trust 'em any more than anyone else does. But let's not take the Apple
II's discontinuation as a foregone conclusion... if we did, then there would
be no point in trying to change that, would there?

Stephen Brown

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