Re: What happened to the Zip chip?!?!

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ljsilicon@aol.com (LJSILICON) :
> Nothin, the reason why products are getting scarce for the Apple II line is
> because THEY DON'T MAKE THEM ANYMORE! IT'S BEEN YEARS YOU MORON!!! No one, I
> REPEAT, NO ONE could make a living writing software or developing software
> for
> a machine that THEY DON'T MAKE ANYMORE! Get a damn clue. Reality keeps
> knocking
> but there's no one home at your house! I hope you never copulate; the world
> isn't ready for Nothin offspring!

Can you explain why there are new products being produced for the C64/C128? 
Last time I checked, they too were no longer being made, but there were still
products being released, and even a few magazines.  Even the Amiga has an
active community.  The Apple II on the otherhand is now truely dead.  All of
the _decent_ magazines are gone, there is little new software, and the
quality stuff that is released has no hope of making money, as it will surely
be pirated.  I would postulate that the Apple II market is 1000 or 2000, and
producing software that will be pirated by 3/4 is by no means worth the time.