Re: Apple's next move (was Apple II just won't die.)

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4k95f5$8il@newsbf02.news.aol.com>,
RUBYWAND <rubywand@aol.com> wrote:
>In article <4k7sam$ab8@blackice.winternet.com>, hbouma@winternet.com (Hal
>Bouma) writes:
>>	I'm not going to quote any of the previous posts, but I would
>>like to say that I think the best place for the Apple II line to
>>re-emerge is in the over hyped $500 Internet box machines. ....

>    $500 is too much for an "internet box" and, probably, too little for
>the features II users (and new Apple II home user buyers) will demand.

   Yeah. Once they start putting modem addons to home game systems
(Sony Playstation, Sega Saturn, Nintendo Ultra 64), which already cost
<$300, and have some serious amounts of processing power to boot
(decoding JPEGs on a 65816 is painful; pretty trivial on modern
processors with addon graphics hardware), $500 is way too much. With a
$100 modem & software addon, you could market a $400 box for internet
access, and could then turn around and play some fairly kick-ass games.

   A $500 box tht did only internet would die a pretty painful death
compared to a game system addon.

Nathan Mates


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