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From: shankar@src.honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: GSOS and CMS Controllers
Message-ID: <9469@srcsip.UUCP>
Date: 30 Sep 88 19:19:52 GMT
References: <8809271156.AA07493@crash.cts.com>
Reply-To: shankar@ely.UUCP (Subash Shankar)
Organization: Honeywell Systems & Research Center, Camden, MN
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In article <8809271156.AA07493@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-sol!pro-newfrontier!kblack@nosc.mil writes:

>
>If Apple is looking for comments from the net, mine would be "Wake up and
>smell the roses." For the price of a GS system you could buy a really nice
>amiga 2000 system and have cash left in the bank (and I don't even like Amiga)
>If you charge too much for a product, people don't buy it. 

Apple's reasoning here is (presumably) that people won't give up their 
investment and loyalty to the Apple // line.  In my opinion, this reasoning is
flawed.  Personally, there is little chance that I might go to the Amiga, since
the future of the Amiga line is not stable enought to invest in Amiga software,
even though I think that everybody will agree that the Amiga offers the best
hardware per dollar of any major computer.  I have too many scruples to 
degenerate to an Intel or IBM system :-).  But, the delay in the GS+ in all 
probability means that Apple has lost a sale of the GS+ to the AE speedup
board.  Being an egomaniac, I suspect that many others feel the same way.

>As for ways to change the policies, my suggestion is for everyone who wants a
>//GS+ and a further contiuation of the // line (65832, etc.) to run out and
>buy a share of Apple stock. 

Being a little practical/cynical, I doubt Apple would listen to a .001%
shareholder.  The board probably owns almost all the stocks.