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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Another Apple II Supporter Turns Away
Message-ID: <15044@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 1 Feb 91 18:39:05 GMT
References: <1991Feb01.072319.4123@mthvax.cs.miami.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <1991Feb01.072319.4123@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> bsherman@mthvax.cs.miami.edu (Bob Sherman) writes:
>catalog is suddenly full of Mac and IBM software in addition to Apple II

Of course; their survival is at stake.  Apple has said that they
plan no new Apple II models, and they have made it abundantly clear
through their marketing actions that they really don't want people
buying Apple IIs unless they cannot be persuaded to buy Macintoshes,
in which case some Apple dealers may reluctantly sell them Apple IIs.
Apple has also made it clear that IIGS applications are not in their
"bridge" plans to migrate Apple II users to the Macintosh.  In the
face of such evidence, naturally the software market and their users
are abandoning the Apple II for the Macintosh, or PC clones (which
are much more widely used than Macintoshes).