Re: C64/128 Wolf and GS upgrade support

[wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will Smith)]

On 19 Mar 1998 05:34 -0500, spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)
wrote:

|>    I wonder if current management at Apple even remembers the IIgs,

not likely.

|>though one thing is clear--they would never want it resurrected now
|>that they've successfully killed and burried it (at least as far as
|>the general public and the market are concerned).

"perception is reality" is the rule in many markets...  8\

|>    That fear about competition is stronger than ever now, look at
|>how they got rid of all the Macintosh clones and returned to the
|>notion of isolating the company and its products.

makes ya wonder if their paranid schizophrenic, eh?

|>    Well wait a bit, there is no doubt in my mind Apple Computer
|>will declare bankruptcy or be bought out within the next several
|>months. 

this wouldn't surprise me, but i think it'll take more time than that.

|>Perhaps then it will be easier to gain the rights to the
|>Apple II (I doubt the system could be revived to compete with
|>the PC clone, but there could be a niche within the education
|>market or somewhere else). Apple's downfall may be devasting to
|>the Macintosh, but it could benefit the Apple II. There's almost
|>an irony in that happening. :)

hehehehe...

|>.... In some way it's kind of sad to see what has
|>become of the three major computer companies of the 80's (even
|>while Apple continues to live, they've become as dull a company
|>as IBM).

back before the Mac was on the market, Apple was different because
they saw what the consumer wanted and did it, while Big Blue figured
that the market would want what they offered because THEY offered it.

today, the tables have turned.  (well....  they actually turned about
10 years ago.)  Big Blue is trying to (re)gain the market by catering
to the consumer, while Apple is losing ground.

the difference?  Apple didn't learn from Big Blue's mistakes.  they
didn't learn from Big Blue AT ALL...  one of the smartest things IBM
did was to make the PC an open architechture.  Apple keeps so much
under wraps it's not funny.

history: round and round and round she goes...  where she stops,
nobody knows!

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William Smith
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