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Subject: Re: obsolescence: what gives Mac its value?
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Date: Thu, 28-Feb-85 19:50:46 EST
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> 
> I am quite confident that on February 26, 1990, five years from today, I
> will still be getting useful work done on my Macintosh, and that there will
> still be reasons why I am reluctant to switch from it to the then-favorite
> computer. I am equally confident that on February 26, 1995, ten years from
> today, that there will be quite a number of people worldwide who are still
> getting useful work done with their Macintoshes. I probably will have moved
> up by then.
> 
Well put.  My SO has an Apple2 and still uses it for all her
computer work.  It is not obsolete.  It still does, quite well,
the job(s) it has always done.  I would predict that Apple will be
still selling them in 1990 to some folks who don't want to change
the household standard.  The Mac?  Why, I'll probably be buying my
second or third in 1990.  After all, by then there will be a color
version with 10 meg of RAM and a 20mb hard disk internal.  And it
will be able to use my $2000 (by then) software library and read my
several gigabytes of micro-floppies (if my present buying rate
continues :-) and run UNIX (with the then new mmu).

The worst case is that I will use my Mac as a terminal for whatever else
I have in the house.  How many folks will need a small smart terminal
in the comming few years?

Obsolete?  No way.  Mac is the start of a new
product family that will continue for at least a decade.  Sure
something else will come out with more features and less cost.
Sure, in 1990 Apple will have another newest hot product.  Just
as surely they will still be selling truckloads of Macs the same
way they still sell pre-Mac products today.


E. Michael Smith  ...!{hplabs,ihnp4,amd,nsc}!amdahl!ems

Computo ergo sum

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