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From: hammen@puff.UUCP (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Retailer drops Mac (really Apple support)
Message-ID: <747@puff.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 4-Apr-86 19:15:46 EST
Article-I.D.: puff.747
Posted: Fri Apr  4 19:15:46 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 8-Apr-86 05:34:56 EST
References: <1605@sdcsvax.UUCP> <2972@amdahl.UUCP> <12825@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> <11205@amdcad.UUCP>
Organization: The Total Perspective Vortex
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Keywords: Apple Lisa 7/7 MacWorks support

In article <11205@amdcad.UUCP>, jimb@amdcad.UUCP (Jim Budler) types:
> 
> I still contend that to castigate Apple for dropping two uneconomic machines
> even if YOU love those particular machines is incorrect. No business can
> continue to support old machines forever.  
> -- 
>  Jim Budler
>  Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.
>  (408) 749-5806
>  Usenet: {ucbvax,decwrl,ihnp4,allegra,intelca}!amdcad!jimb
>  Compuserve:	72415,1200

Yes, no business can afford to support old machines forever.  But the point is,
it hasn't been quite a year since Apple announced cancellation of the X/Lisa
and they have stopped supporting it.  I don't call their 'upgrade' policy to
a Mac Plus as support: more like an insult. Anyway, try to get a response
from Apple if you use 7/7. Or MacWorks. How can the business community trust
a company that will do this to them?  How can you trust a company that charges
you an arm and a leg to upgrade to the latest model?  You don't, you go with
IBM.  I mean, look at a 1981 PC.  It still is just as useable as a 1986 XT.
IBM doesn't go and completely change their product line every two years.
Innovation is nice, but it shouldn't come at the expense of your first 
customers.  Who is it that said 'You can always tell the pioneers by the 
arrows in their backs?'


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