Re: Does Apple miss us?

[John_L._Graham@adbbs.antioch.edu (John L. Graham)]

I don't think anyone really believed "Apple II Forever" even though those were
Apple's own words, and I certainly never believed it would stay in production
forever. What really disappointed me though was how they chose to phase it
out, which was bacially to ignore it to death. The fact it took so long
illustrated just how much life was left in it as a commercial product. Oh
well, live'n learn. In hind sight as someone else mentioned Apple did some of
us a bitter favor as it got me off the update band-wagon and really shook me
up and made me evaluate what I was using computers for. People can rant and
rave all they want about how great this computer and that computer is, but
for all their horsepower they'll never be the simple, fun, hobby machine the
II is. And even on the work side of things we often turn to the ours IIs when
we need something unique (i.e., canned software can't handle it) done and we
need it done NOW.

Ack! Soap box alert! Time to step off. In closing, I wish Apple had found a
better way to say goodbye to the machine that carried the company so far and
made their current flagship product possible, and to the people that suppored
them for so long.

-John