Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

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:     I'm not one of those people who'll tell you they should have
: dumped the Mac and tried surviving off the 8-bit Apple II mostly--
: with the GS a top of the line product--but there was _still_ a
: large and profitable market back in the mid/late 80's. Apple threw
: it all away, out of spite because some people in the company
: hated anything that didn't say "Macintosh" on it. Why couldn't
: they have had two product lines? You can't say the market wasn't
: there to support it, it was. Apple made a mistake--a mistake
: that was based on emotion and not logic. I know it sounds like
: a silly made up conspiracy theory, but it is the truth that
: Apple tried killing the II for many years while the Macintosh
: was (and still is today) like a regilion to Apple and users.

The idea of having two product lines worked for a while. There were the
Macs which cost you parts of your anatomy to buy, and Apple IIs which could
do some of the same things while being affordable. This scheme became unwork-
able when affordable Macs appeared in '90. That sent the market for Apple IIs
into the crapper. That didn't sit well with the militant Apple II users, but
Apple customers at large thought it was great. Keep in mind that Apple sold
(and even introduced) 68K Mac models after Powermacs debuted, because they
were more affordable. When affordable Powermacs showed up, the 68K market
vanished. And now software support for 68Ks is sorely lacking and it'll
be time to replace this trusty 840av with a Pmac 8500 or so. 
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