Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!web-3a!c60c-3cw From: c60c-3cw@web-3a.berkeley.edu Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: More Macweek Rumors Message-ID: <1990Mar9.102100.3215@agate.berkeley.edu> Date: 9 Mar 90 10:21:00 GMT References: <1990Mar9.012908.23319@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Sender: c60c-3cw@web-3a.berkeley.edu (Allen Kelton) Reply-To: c60c-3cw@web-3a.berkeley.edu (Allen Kelton) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 21 In article <1990Mar9.012908.23319@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher) writes: >A front page article in the March 6 MacWeek says that HyperCard 2.0 for the >Mac will have a new file format 'compatible with the rumored IIGS version of >HyperCard'. Good news! It sounds like they have also made a lot of neat >improvements in Hypercard. > >Rick Fincher >rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu MacWeek is contradicting itself. If they report that the II line is dead, why would Apple be creating products for a machine it is no longer making? If Hypercard isn't going to help them sell more II's, why make a II version? It just doesn't make sense. They are mutually exclusive ideas, either dead II or Hypercard GS. I think nay-sayers are wrong, and the II line will continue. Financial analysts have pointed out that part of Apple's problem stems from not giving enough attention to the low end products. They're not losing money on the II's yet, so there's no reason to kill it now. I think they will try to build up their weak spot, instead of cutting it off. ******************************************************************************* c60c-3cw@web-3a.berkeley.edu (Allen Kelton)