Re: Can't say I'm happy about -this-...

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

ChemSleuth@earthlink.net (Dennis Doms) wrote:

>>never got the 
>>resources it needed, and therefore suffered from neglect until it was 
>>finally killed off.  I'd rather have seen no IIGS at all than this kind 
>>of ignoble end.
>
>However, to be fair to the computer's technology, and to place
>additional blame on Apple's management style... having decided to
>produce the IIgs in the first place, there were several things that
>Apple could have done (as far as positioning and encouraging
>developers) at little or no cost that might have produced a more
>representative life-cycle. For example, the restriction of the IIgs to
>the K-12, and eventually K-6 or -8 market, and the attendent dismissal
>of (and refusal to promote) a broader base of products was critical.
>Also critical were obscene pricing irregularities like an external
>hard drive at $1495 when the entire Mac Classic with hard drive was
>only about a third more.
>
>I have been waffling over buying another (newer) Mac; I still use them
>in a few areas at work. But I still am having trouble getting past the
>stench of Apple's egos running a successful product line
>systematically into the ground to save the "favored son" it financed.

I agree.  It is funny, but I do not think they ever realized what
kind of mistake the alienation of a loyal user base was.  The
defection of II users to the PC was damaging.  That's one of
the reason's for Apple's market share dropping from 80% in
the II days to around 10% today.  Ask PC users.  First
generation PC users, not the kids that grew up with '486es
how they got started.  Most of us started on the Apple II.

If you wish to experience older Mac software, run MacOS 8.1,
and do not wish to reward Apple for the infanticide of the
IIGS, please check out http://www.emulators.com/ and get
your PC to run the Mac software you want.  ;-)

Sorry, I'd rather keep my real IIGS rather than going Bernie.
However, I'd be more than happy to forgo a Mac and use
Gemulator Pro on my PC to run Mac stuff instead of a real
Mac.