Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!husc6!husc4!huang From: huang@husc4.HARVARD.EDU (Howard Huang) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Dwindling Support Message-ID: <1219@husc6.harvard.edu> Date: 12 Jan 90 20:59:50 GMT References: <24529@gryphon.COM> Sender: news@husc6.harvard.edu Reply-To: huang@husc4.UUCP (Howard Huang) Organization: Harvard University Science Center Cambridge, MA Lines: 45 In article <24529@gryphon.COM> lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com (Lynda Botez) writes: >... All last year the Apple II was ignored (at least from a Marketing point >of view); while a new Macintosh CPU appeared on the scene nearly every two >months. The Apple 89 year-end stock report mentions the Apple II line twice -- once to mention the new products that strengthened the II (e.g., the Video Overlay Card), and once to mention the strength of Apple IIs in schools. But that latter part also included a blurb about how the Macintosh was being more and more accepted into schools, sort of hinting that there's nothing the Apple II can do that the Mac can't. >Apple has lost track of it's original user base! It seems to be interested >mainly in targeting businesses and the "workstation" market; it's dropped to >home computer user entirely! No, no, of course Apple hasn't dropped the home base! As MacWEEK reports, there should be a new, low-cost color Macintosh available in 1990. Perfect for the average home user. I can see it now -- "all the power of a Macintosh at a price every family can afford." >The Apple II and the Macintosh have had a bizarre, almost incestuous symbiotic >relationship with each other. I can't say I've ever thought of it in those terms, but... :^) >The Apple II is a "people's machine". It's affordable, and with it's open >architecture, it can be customized to a user's needs. You'll note the same thing can be said about the Macintoshes. (Affordable is one of those popular computer adjectives that every manufacturer uses.) Now there's really nothing wrong with the Macintosh -- it's a nice machine -- but I wish the Apple II got a little more attention (and a built-in Transwarp). >UUCP: {ames!elroy, }!gryphon!pnet02!lbotez >INET: lbotez@pnet02.gryphon.com Howard C. Huang huang@husc4.harvard.edu