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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: AE Rumors
Message-ID: <15568@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 25 Mar 91 09:10:57 GMT
References: <13008@ucrmath.ucr.edu> <1991Mar24.091116.27945@mthvax.cs.miami.edu> <13028@ucrmath.ucr.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <13028@ucrmath.ucr.edu> rhyde@ucrmath.ucr.edu (randy hyde) writes:
>If you really want to change their attitudes, start buying stuff from them.

NO!  AE would interpret improved sales as support for their changed policy,
not opposition to it.  What you should do is write them and explain that
you used to buy their products but due to their new policies you will not
be buying ANY of their products in the future, until and unless their
policies notably improve.

>Ultimately, we cannot place the blame on Apple for the demise of the Apple II
>line.  The 65xxx   processor technology simply hasn't kept up.

That can largely be blamed on lack of support from Apple.  Intel received
major support from IBM for the improvement of their 80x86 processor family,
which was not architecturally better than the 65xxx family.  (The 680x0 is
generally a better architecture, but that hasn't made it the winner in the
PC wars.)