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From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple II Future
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Date: 21 Dec 88 18:50:29 GMT
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>I agree with your message, and that crippling or limiting the IIGS to limit
>competition with the Mac is an unsound business practice, but it is not an
>uncommon one.  Wang severly limited the word processing ability of their
>PC type machines since they made much more profit on their word processing
>machines.  The result -- Wang's entry into the PC world failed.

I guess the lower half of the class ('C' and 'D' students) has to work
for someone.  The key idea here as that all the examples you give result
in something other than ringing success.  So what you seem to be observing is
that Apple will stubbornly refuse to learn from the mistakes of others and
INSIST on screwing it up for themselves.

It isn't because we don't TRY to teach them better (what do us professors
know anyhow? :-)

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