Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!haven!ncifcrf!nlm-mcs!adm!smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: No more ][gs+ Message-ID: <8456@smoke.ARPA> Date: 8 Sep 88 05:42:56 GMT References: <8427@smoke.ARPA> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) ) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 27 In article jm7e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU ("Jeremy G. Mereness") writes: >They are interested only in the short-term gains of bulk sales to schools and >businesses; not the long-term insurance of happy, satisfied, and supported >customers. As you may have read some time ago in Open-Apple, when A+ surveyed their readership they found the median Apple II user age to be in the 40s, with most use for "personal business" applications. That didn't seem to slow at all the trend among Apple management to push the Apple II as being primarily for the "educational" market and the Mac as being for the "business" market. (In some sense the latter might be right, but the former is a serious misperception.) >The Mac+ and SE are merely crippled workstations w/o sufficient >memory or storage. They have never been personal computers, ... Interestingly, these Macs are quite popular in "higher education". >If Apple really wants to compete with Big Blue, they should beef >up Macs to compete with Suns, Apollo's, MicroVaxes, and IBM PS/2's with RT >cards running multitasking, UNIX-based, filesharing network environments. One assumes that's why they're trying to do with the Mac II. I agree that an Apple II makes a good personal computer, but the IBM PC clones seem to be dominating that market now. No surprise, though, given Apple's marketing strategies.