Re: WHO killed the Apple II???

[mystix@direct.ca (Herbert Fung)]

In <7on5k3$hti$1@news.rt66.com>, "Mike Westerfield" <MikeW50@aol.com> writes:

>Sorry, but that's just not true. People were not driven away by the number
>of pirates, but by the lack of customers. I can even look at the sales

I wasn't arguing the point of commercial software, that much is pretty much
a given. The drop in sales of commercial software no doubt had alot to do with
Apple dropping the entire Apple II line of products from it's price lists.

>Piracy was and is a problem, but it did not kill the Apple II. Piracy takes
>a percentage of sales, not all of them. For a weak company or a weak
>platform, piracy may be the straw that breaks the camel's back, but it is
>rarely the major factor, and definitely was not the major factor on the
>Apple II.

Agreed. What I was mainly refering to was the other portions of software
developers, who wrote software out of love of the hobby. The so called
shareware market. That I believe was the primary hope of any new fun or
useful software for our beloved hobby.

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