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From: labc-3dc@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Why Apple 2 Forever
Summary: Go Tom!
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Date: 3 Apr 89 06:52:08 GMT
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In article <8903310227.aa00254@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes:
>Have you seen the last page of the April 1989 A2-Central (the latest issue,
>I just received mine in Thursday's mail)?  Weishaar's editorial in particular
>makes the argument that potential Macintosh customers are likely to draw
>inferences about future support for their investment from how Apple treats
>(or is perceived to treat) their installed Apple 2 base.

Most of the back page is filled with letters from Apple II users around the
world who have been abandoned by Apple Computer, Inc.

To quote from his response (I'm sure he wouldn't mind...):
"     Apple seems to think that its lack of support for the II is adequately
addressed by suggesting that Apple II owners switch to the incompatible
Macintosh.  We feel that a company that is willing to abandon hundreds of
thousands of Apple II users around the world will also be willing to abandon
hundreds of thousands of Macintosh users a few years from now.  To buy another
computer from the same company under these circumstances is foolish.  Since
Apple wants us to change operating systems anyhow, we'd be much smarter to
change to a less proprietary operating system, which has a better chance of
being supported in the future, now."

To quote Mr. Scott:
"Fool me once, shame on you.  Fool me twice, shame on me."

>Murph Sewall                       Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]

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