Re: Of course we can trust Apple for our next OS!

["Edwin E. Thorne" <edwin.thorne@rauland.com>]

M Rassbach <mark@milestonerdl.com> wrote in article
<35221BF0.D925CD2C@milestonerdl.com>...
> Eric Bennett wrote:
> 
> > As it
> > stands, though, Apple killed the II, and I think a lot of the criticism
is
> > deserved.
> 
> What was that slogan:
> 
> "Apple ][ Forever"
> 
> Apple ][ software development was on the decline when the axe fell.  The
line was
> old and venerable.  The Apple ][->Mac 'transition' idea would have
blunted the
> griping at the time, as would have never put out that "over the top"
slogan.
> 
I have a slogan of my own.   It's "Who cares about the Apple II?"   (No
offense intended to Apple II users, but I personally have as much use for
an Apple II as a Wintel user would).

I never owned an Apple II.   I couldn't afford one, so I bought a Commodore
64.

In 1996 I bought a Macintosh Performa 6400/180, and I am entirely satisfied
with it and the Mac OS, and I am pleased with the future course of the Mac.

Now I have to hear criticism that is designed to bring down the maker of
the computer I chose to buy, based on them discontinuing a computer I would
have never bought.    

Here's a list of stuff I would have never bought from Apple:
Apple II
Newton
A/UX

So I don't care that they're discontinued.  Why?  Because I'd have never
bought them!

Hey Mark, you forgot to rag Apple about discontinuing A/UX!   ;-)