Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utgpu!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: Rumours of a new GS
Message-ID: <1991Jun16.235722.23311@utstat.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Statistics
References: <1991Jun16.111606.15538@crash.cts.com>
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 1991 23:57:22 GMT

In article <1991Jun16.111606.15538@crash.cts.com> wizard@pro-odyssey.cts.com (Mike Moler) writes:
>I saw today (cant reveal the source) an advertisement brochure from APPLE
>comp corp. This brocure shows a blurp of the new IIgs that comes in a kit
>form with Hypercard, a HD, a superdrive ( which will be required to support
>system 6) and 2 megs min. I just hope all the other wishes will come to play,
>speed out of the box, better graphic support, IBM MAC file readability.
>
>It may be that Apple is looking at some of there mistakes in the past and are
>willing to fix them.

To be quite frank, these rumours are simply more cruel items that do
nothing to further users' loyalty to Apple. Had Apple wanted to do what
you are suggesting they could have given a statement of direction. Life
is too short to wait around for Apple's marketing wizards to play their
little tricks.At least in this case, Apple has lost all credibility at
both the high and low end of the micro world. I hope these rumours are
true, but I somehow doubt that they'll make a difference. The rest of
the world has moved on over the past little while. To a longtime Apple/Mac
user, I must tell you I'm fed up with Apple's lack of sensistivity to
their (ex) user base. Their policy of not commenting on future directions
just won't work in today's market. When they should have been coming out
with faster inexpensive Mac's, they were pushing Classic's and LC's. When
they should have had an inexpensive GS, they simply kept throwing crumbs.
In fact, Puette has stated variations on a theme of no new AppleII's and
the GS is classified as an AppleII. Simply look at where the software 
developers are moving to, and you will realize that it would take wonders
to bring them over to the GS, even if development of Mac and GS programs
took few resources.

The GS is a really nice computer. There have been other nice computers
that slipped through the cracks. The HP Integral was years before its
time. Interesting that it was made by a company where Puette was before
moving on to Apple. The IPC was quite unique( but not PC compatible). It
did not fit into what the corporate world wanted and HP axed it.I would
be very surprised if the same fate did not await the GS.

Philip McDunnough
Professor of Statistics
University of Toronto
[my opinions,...]