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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Another GS+ rumor..
Message-ID: <10005@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 7 Apr 89 22:51:35 GMT
References: <8904040536.AA27577@crash.cts.com> <640NETOPRHM@NCSUVM>
Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB) <gwyn>)
Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD.
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In article <640NETOPRHM@NCSUVM> NETOPRHM@NCSUVM.BITNET (Hal Meeks) writes:
-Apple isn't the benevolent "hacker's" company it was 2-3 years ago. It's
-a corporation. And the bottom line is money, not if you are going to hurt
-someone's feelings. Why in the world would Apple sell you a color system
-that would emulate a mac, and run at about the same speed, when they can
-sell you a color mac system and make more money (a _lot_ more money).
-...
-I'm not trying to make anyone angry here. I've posed a few questions, and
-haven't answered them because I don't know the answer.

Well, consider this:  I would never, ever buy a color Mac to replace my
IIGS after Apple has relegated the Apple II line to oblivion, UNLESS the
color Mac provided support for the majority of my existing Apple II
applications.  That is what happens when corporate money-grubbing
mentality "hurts my feelings" by treating existing customers like dirt.

That's why I think that the RATIONAL course for Apple, assuming they
do want to discontinue a separate Apple II product line, is to come up
with a "bridge" system.  If they want to continue two separate product
lines that is okay too, so long as they both receive adequate support.