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From: earleh@dartvax.UUCP (Earle R. Horton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Hates You and other Misconceptions
Message-ID: <7367@dartvax.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-Oct-87 17:23:36 EDT
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Posted: Mon Oct 12 17:23:36 1987
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In article <1629@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>, bc@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU 
	(bill coderre) writes:
> DISCLAIM: This is my opinion, not one of Apple or MIT.
> 
> AS FOR THIS BUSINESS OF APPLE "HATING" PEOPLE:
> 
> I honestly can't believe people who think that Apple would "unload"
> inferior monitors on anybody. Seriously, why would Apple bother to
> ship inferior product if they knew that it would reduce its company
> image and also cost money since people will send broken stuff back?

I don't know about this, but Apple has been known to:

Ship a new model computer (Mac Plus) before the System and Finder files
(remember System 3.0) were by any stretch of the imagination finished.

Ship an entire series of keyboard (Mac Plus keyboard) which had an
obvious and well-known defect.  There is no distinction between a
shift/cursor key combination and certain numeric keypad keys when using
this keyboard.  They did not explain why they did this at any time,
although several plausible theories exist.

Ship two models (SE and Mac II) which required rather a large volume of
patches to the ROM in order to operate properly.

Promise things which they do not deliver.  (Mac Basic, MultiFinder, A/UX.)
(Or deliver late.)                                         ^
                                                           |
                                                     (Where is it?)

Ship a version of the System file which broke their own terminal program,
before they had the upgrade to said terminal program ready.

I wouldn't say that Apple "hates" anybody, but isn't there the slightest
chance that there are people in their organization who think Apple will
look good for coming out with a large number of new products at a fast
rate, whether such products are ready for sale or not?

Hmm?

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