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From: davidsen@crdos1.crd.ge.COM (Wm E Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Xerox sues Apple!!!
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Date: 19 Dec 89 13:14:10 GMT
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In article <37366@apple.Apple.COM> rewing@Apple.COM (Richard Ewing) writes:

| Can you say "upgradable"?  Apple probably is the most committed
| company in the industry when it comes to upgrades.  

  Excuse me? Is this the same Apple which sold Macs for four years which
don't have any slots for upgrade? The ones you can convert to color by
buying a whole new machine?

  Is this the Apple who will only sell you a UNIX version on a hard
disk which is too small to *run* UNIX beyond the "Hello, world!" stage?

  Apple has a number of useful features, but they have resisted making
their machines expandable as long as they could. Was this to prevent
third parties from offering better and less costly options? Can you
doubt it?

  Apple has a firm committment to PROFIT, and makes IBM look positively
benevolent by comparison. Maybe Apple is an IBM public relations
operation.

-- 
bill davidsen	(davidsen@crdos1.crd.GE.COM -or- uunet!crdgw1!crdos1!davidsen)
"The world is filled with fools. They blindly follow their so-called
'reason' in the face of the church and common sense. Any fool can see
that the world is flat!" - anon