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From: krazy@claris.com (Jeff Erickson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ugghh and the GS
Message-ID: <9013@claris.com>
Date: 7 Mar 89 02:35:48 GMT
References: <2677689@ub.cc.umich.edu>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Mountain View CA
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From article <2677689@ub.cc.umich.edu>, by Tabakal@UB.CC.UMICH.EDU:
>> My personal advice regarding the Apple IIgs is this: if you NEED
>> an Apple II, by a IIc+.  Otherwise, BUY A MAC!!
>  
> I think I'm going to be ill.  If this is what we can expect from Claris
> employees, is it a wonder that support is falling fast from many software
> companies?  I realize that this is not the official position of Claris,
> Inc., but it still hurts.  Bad.

I will rerereiterate this.  Claris will continue to support the IIgs.
More versions of AppleWorks GS are on the drawing board even as we post.
Some very capable people are working on these revisions.  I am not one
of them, for obvious reasons.

I do not have any influence over whether Claris supports the GS.  I am
officially a "software engineer", and I have no intention of becoming a
manager at any point in the forseeable future.  My opinion has been noted
by my managers, and has been appropriately ignored.

My advice is directly based on my perception of Apple's suport of the 
machine.  I think it is Apple's actions that is causing the falling
support for the GS among other software companies.

I am not a typical Claris employee; I am by far the most extremely
disappointed (I hope).
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