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From: CCSBWDPC@UIAMVS.BITNET (Brett Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Overblown Scully Remark
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Date: 14 Jun 88 13:41:39 GMT
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 >Well it looks like apple is really doing it to the // line... No support
 >and trying to force Mac's on us and so on.. We've been having a discussion
 >on Compuserve about this and might possibly want to start swamping Apple
 >with lots and lots of letters.. Would anyone out there be interested in
 >this?? If so let me know by mail so we don't clog up the network with
 >this.. I will post back when we start to finalize this..
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   I would not be all that concerned about Scullys comments that they
have abandoned the consumer markets in which the consumers are unwilling
to spend as much on buying a computer as on a TV.
   Apple has never sold a computer that cost less than a TV, and Apple
is not interested in the consumer market where the parents buy a CHEAP TOY
for the little KIDS to PLAY WITH and throw in the CLOSET when they get
bored with it.
   This is hardly a new policy on Apples part, Apple is just trying to
shut up the idiots in the AppleII press who want Apple to sell //cs in
Toys-R-Us for $300 next to the Commodores and Ataris, such rumors hurt
Apple// sales.
   As for making you buy a Macintosh, Apple is turning the IIGS into a
Color Mac. Unlike others I do not think this is a crime, and when Apple
introduces the faster IIGS+ with its faster ROMS, you will like the
IIGS-Macintosh Interface as well.