Re: Apple IIe: A Real Survivor - on the Mac Observer

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Greg Buchner <nobody@mn.rr.com> wrote:

>As for the 'all-important addition to their Mac life', it is 
>important...where would the Mac be without the II?  More Mac users need 
>to know that.

Where would PC users be without the Mac.  ;-)

If Apple had played their cards right and had continuity between the II and
the Mac, I would be using a Mac today.  Apple would have held on to
their market share.  Today, things would be different.

When Jobs set the Mac division against the Apple II division (suprisingly
this incident was even shown on the TNT "Triumpth of the Nerds" movie)
it divided the company and divided the user base.  No matter how many
diehard Mac users refuse to acknowledge it, this did cause a lot of
Apple II users to jump ship to the PC and that's why you have PC
users like myself.

And no matter how much Mac users continue to hate the PC (as
mentioned above, Jobs extended that hate to Apple's own Apple II line)
there is no denying that the PC world is much healthier today than
the Mac.  The PC world sees real competition that spawns innovation.
AMD and Intel vie with each other resulting in more powerful CPUs.
nVidia, ATI, and formerly 3dfx battle it out for the most powerful GPUs.
Mac users even benefit as those technologies (the video cards) trickle
down to them.