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From: toddpw@tybalt.caltech.edu (Todd P. Whitesel)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: //gs screen resolutions...
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Date: 13 Feb 90 23:46:03 GMT
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farrier@Apple.COM (Cary Farrier) writes:

>	you can't sit in a locked room and ignore the competition.  If
>	someone out there comes out with something better, then you'd
>	better be prepared to either update your product or come out
>	with a new one.  You can't operate in this world with your
>	head buried in the sand, as some people would like to do.  If
>	you ignore the competition, they are not going to go away or
>	become any less the competition.

THIS PARAGRAPH BELONGS OVER EVERY DOORWAY AT APPLE.

In the past few years, Apple has neglected to:

develop a blitter to nuke the Amiga and make the desktop reasonable on slower
machines

make its monitors worth buying, by adding NTSC in and stereo speakers to the
already excellent picture tube

put Apple's clout behind Bill Mensch since he desperately needs it to produce
fast 65816's and maybe even develop the 65832

redesign the //gs from scratch and make the ultimate low end market contender

refine the //c+ into the ideal education workstation

price the Video Overlay Card so its main market can buy it

push the Apple // in every market that won't take the Mac

make the 1 year warranty a standard product feature

...and the list goes on.

I understand the turmoil at Apple recently, and I think most of these items
are in the planning stages, but now more than ever

APPLE NEEDS TO REALIZE HOW DISTRUSTFUL ITS CUSTOMER BASE IS, AND HOW LAUGHABLE
SOME OF ITS PRODUCTS REALLY ARE, AND TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.

Non-disclosure is a lame excuse to keep from saying, "trust us" which is all we
really want to hear!!!

But no one's even so much as said that.

I have confidence in Apple, especially now that they are cleaning house, and
hope to see great things in the future and perhaps a little honesty about the
past few years...

Just a simple "trust us" would be enough.

Todd Whitesel
toddpw @ tybalt.caltech.edu