Re: What's to become of the Apple II?

["Charles P. Hobbs" <transit@primenet.com>]

rubywand@aol.com wrote:
> 
> In article <56vlkm$pu9@sun.rhrk.uni-kl.de>, guenter@student.uni-kl.de
> (Marvin) writes:
> 
> >
> >Charles T. Turley (cturley@wco.com) wrote:
> >: According to the most current information I've obtained a new clone of
> >: the Apple IIe should be available for sales to the public from a third
> >: party around March, 1997, at a price of around $150.00!
> >
> >Yes, but if they are going to license the IIgs architecture which is
> >the future of the Apple II, I would be VERY surprised!
> >
> >
> 
>      Perhaps, Apple is waiting for the new IIe compatibles to 'make a
> splash' before licensing GS cloning rights. Or, maybe, the idea is to
> soften up the home market at the bottom end before introducing its own
> high-end II series product (e.g. GSX).
> 
>      It is also possible that the company wants to hold onto GS as
> insurance. If their strategy calls for a 'soft exit' from Mac production
> and if this plan falls through, then Apple may need to play its 'GS card'.


I tend to doubt it. . .Apple's got too much invested in the Power Mac
based machines. . .If Apple's leaving the Mac world, it's going down
pretty quickly. 

It'd be hard to believe them coming out with a 68XXX based machine 
again,
much less something based on the 65816. . .