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From: sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Reality vs. Apple Computer
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Date: 2 Mar 90 23:59:37 GMT
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In-Reply-To: message from jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu

When the 16K Apple ][ sold for $2000 there weren't 16K Apple ][ clones (or
non-Apple clone computers with 10 times as much to offer selling for 70% less)
selling for $1000....

What Apple (the Corporation) is one day going to have to come to an
understanding with is the "mystic" is long gone... computer users today expect
SUPERB value for the buck and not just mediocre... I've used Apple computers
for seven years now and I can tell anyone that really cares that I will never
buy -anything- with the Apple logo on it again. The computer is overpriced;
the warranty is ridiculous; the hardware add-ons are overpriced as is the
limited offering of software. There is "shareware" available for other
brands of computers that blows away "commercial"-ware for the Apple and the
list goes on and on.

Steve
Flames are useless as I respond to them as I would a campfire in the
wilderness... I p*ss on them


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