Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple Doesn't support their Existing User Base (does too) Message-ID: <9106012041.AA01198@apple.com> Date: 1 Jun 91 20:28:26 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The Internet Lines: 25 >> That's why we see a GS at all. No law forced Apple to produce the GS, just a >> couple engineers on their own and management willing to go with the product. >> Some installed base outcry really didn't do that much, IMHO. True. No law forces Apple to produce the GS. That doesn't mean/prove/suggest that Apple Inc. supports it. All that proves is that they haven't completely cut it. They CAN'T just drop it immediately, because of the MASSIVE outcry they would get from their customers and they could probably lose the trust of present mac customers and possibly future customers. It seems to me, that the only reason they haven't completely dropped the II is because of this. Where were you during that last few months when we went over the Apple II support issue? Yes we get system software support and once in a while, a new product (VOC & SCSI). The SCSI card wasn't that big of a deal, considering we caould already get one somewhere else, and the VOC, well, not a whole lot of people have a use for that, especially with it's price. Compared to what they do for the mac, we've gotten virtually nothing. I'd love to be proven wrong in the future, but for the present and the past few years, this is the case. ***DISCLAIMER*** I, IN NO WAY, AM IMPLYING THAT APPLE II DTS OR SYSTEM SOFTWARE PEOPLE ARE GUILTY!! I BLAME MANAGEMENT FOR THIS. ---------------------------------------- BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm <------------send files here pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com