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From: erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
Subject: Re: Apology to APPLE
Message-ID: <1979@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 2 Feb 90 12:49:21 GMT
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Reply-To: erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk (A J Cunningham)
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In article <93568@linus.UUCP> cookson@mbunix.mitre.org (Cookson) writes:
>Hey, I think we should rag on Apple on our own behalf.  I used to love
>by plain vanilia II, but now that I've started to work with a real workstation,
>that isn't really that much more than a IIcx or ci, and one hell of a lot
>faster, I've realized just how much Apple has been screwing us with price.
>I mean hell, $2000 to upgrade from a II, which was supposed to be able to
>be upgraded cheaply and easily, to a IIx which isn't that much better.
>Or a customer support staff that won't even talk to you, is not indicitive
>of a company that gives a damn about whether or not its private
>citizen customers are happy!  No, NeXT time I won't buy a Mac.



	Ha! You think you've got it bad? You should try getting
developer support outside America. I had to wait four months to get the
developer CD ROM and our Applelink package won't work with our X25 comms
network. Apple's suggestion is 'Let us sell you a really overpriced
modem with a nice Apple badge on the front." Then there's the warranty.
To get our project going Apple gave us 2 IIcx's. In six months one CPU
box and one monitor have failed. Yup we are being properly shafted by
Scully and co. NeXT time I'm going for a SPARC station.
		Tony





-- 
Tony Cunningham, Edinburgh University Computing Service. erci18@castle.ed.ac.uk

	"If the thunder don't get ya then the lightnin' will."