Re: Podcast on John Sculley's role in the death of the Apple II

[Moose <kinkapalms@yahoo.com.au>]

On Jan 12, 5:11 am, Ken Gagne <kga...@gamebits.net> wrote:
> Hey, all!
>
> Retro Computing Roundtable podcast co-host David Greelish recently
> interviewed John Sculley.  That recording is available in two parts:
>
> http://web.me.com/dgreelish/Classic_Computing_Podcasts/CC_Show/Entrie...
>
> http://web.me.com/dgreelish/Classic_Computing_Podcasts/CC_Show/Entrie...
>
> The discussion wasn't specifically about the Apple II, so Mike
> Maginnis and I brought David and noted Apple II historian Steve
> Weyhrich onto the Open Apple podcast to discuss how facts revealed in
> the above interview might inform our opinion of Sculley as it pertains
> to the era of Apple Computer Inc. that saw the introduction of the Mac
> and the death of the Apple II.
>
> You can hear that discussion in the January 2012 episode of the Open
> Apple podcast, now available here:
>
> http://www.open-apple.net/2012/01/11/show-011-greelish-weyhrich-scull...
>
> -Ken

Thanks Ken, I'll download and listen to this asap.

Regardless of how or why the Apple ][ was killed off though, the way
that Apple did it was appallingly bad.  Giving Apple ][ users ZERO
migration options to go forward to a supported machine, the Mac, until
*many* years later, treating Apple ][ users like toxic waste and with
a complete lack of care or respect, and so on.

I went from the Apple ][ to the PC because of Apple's appalling
attitude to ][ owners / users.  I was not going to let them treat me
like that again.  In the 30 years since, I have never purchased any
other Apple products (and probably never will).

The Apple ][GS was a fine machine, that should have been supported and
built on.

Or, at the very least, Apple ][ emulator cards for the Mac should have
been made sooner, rather than many years later - by then it was too
late.

All the best,

 Moose OMalley
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