Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uflorida!mephisto!ncsuvx!news
From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Apple support for the II line (was: ROM 04 GS)
Message-ID: <1990Feb4.232320.2989@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 4 Feb 90 23:23:20 GMT
References: <9992.net.apple@pro-lep> <1990Feb3.174919.11489@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> <12080@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
Lines: 33

In article <12080@smoke.BRL.MIL> gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn) writes:
>In article <1990Feb3.174919.11489@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes:
>>Where are you people coming up with all this trash that the IIgs is dead?
>
>Regardless of hardware sales volume, I suspect that the feeling is
>reinforced when the IIGS owner enters a typical software store (say,
>Electronics Boutique, Babbages, or EggHead) and, after passing through
>the front90% of the store containing nothing but IBM PC software,

90% of which is trash,  What interesting new programs for the IBM have
come out recently?  Except for games, I can't think of any.  If you want
a great selection of games get a ninetendo system.  The software market is
a reflection of number of machines in the field.  There are over 10 million
PC's and clones in field so it's a safe bet to develop for, particularly games.

stuff deleted
>
>Perhaps there is a fundamentla problem in the software distribution
>system, such that all the wonderful IIGS software simply isn't showing
>up in stores?

The software for the GS reflects the distribution of the machine and Apple's
marketing efforts.  There isn't anything on the PC that comes close to
AppleWorks GS.  A few programs like AppleWorks GS, AppleWorks Classic, etc.
dominate the market.  In the PC world, Lotus, Word Perfect etc. dominate the
market in much the same way.  There is a lot of other garbage out there that
survives simply because of the mass marketing that is possible with an 
installed base of 10 million, not because it is good.



Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu