Re: So what!

[swjackso@sprynet.com (Steve W. Jackson)]

In article <4rs5ov$bee@lal.interserv.net>, <avance@sprynet.com> wrote:

> If you're asking us to make false entries and rig the outcome of this
poll, survey
> or contest, then you are despicable.
> 
> The Apple Computer Company richly deserves a comeuppence after what they
> did to their best customers and the school market.  They invented the perfect
> educational computer in the GS and then ran the price up to above the Macs
> with the idea that the Macs would then look attractive and the schools would
> run to them.  Bad news:  The Macs were monochorome, and the schools love
> color, and IBM MS DOS clones were costing one-fifth to one-third as much and
> more people were writing software for them!
> 
> Apple pissed off 30,000 school superintendents who had recommended the
> spending of $9 billion on Apple II software and now look like fools to their 
> boards.  These guys have no job security, tenure, etc. and if you think they
> are going to invest much more in Apple then you need help.
> 
> Don't interfere with this survey.  Let the truth tell.  It always will
in the long run.
> 
> Sincerely, Adrian Vance, CEO, AV Systems, Inc.

Adrian, given the tone of what you wrote above, I have grave doubts about
the outcome of any poll you might conduct.  No one who is an enthusiast of
Macintosh or Apple II computers (and who is an intelligent individual)
denies that Apple made some poor (read:  stupid) marketing moves over the
years; I personally think they missed a golden opportunity to bridge Apple
II users toward the Macintosh line with the IIGS, which was Mac-like and
had color when Macs still had only B&W.  But to come in here suggesting
that Apple computer "deserves a comeuppence" (your misspelling, not mine)
in the tone that you did is inviting everyone here to question the
integrity of your poll  Perhaps you'd be better off sticking to your
chosen profession as CEO and leave the polling to professional pollsters.

= Steve =
-- 
Steve W. Jackson
Montgomery, AL
swjackso@sprynet.com

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