Re: Does Apple miss us?

[ddd1@cornell.edu (David DeMello)]

In article <43k2eq$buo@news.rain.org>, avsystem@rain.org (Adrian Vance) wrote:

 spent another eight billion on software, and it was probably more 
> like ten or 12, Apple's killing the II cost the schools $16 to $20 
> billion in educational utility.  If you think school administrators are 
> going to forget that then you need to talk to a few of them.  I do every 
> day and while many of them like the new Macs they have a hard on for 
> Apple that would chisel granite.
> 

So what should Apple have done? Throw away the future of computing to keep
an old dog like the Apple ][ on life-support. Progress can't always move
along straight, unbroken lines. Sometimes you have to cut your losses. I
thought it showed great foresight on Apple's part when they discontinued
the line, and now we have really terrific machines coming out that blow
the old stuff out of the water.

I do not, in case you're wondering, carry this attitude of mine over into
my valuation of people or of institutions, which, more often than not,
grow better with age. But to harbor such sentimentality for a machine that
you would have rather seen the inferior continue, merely because it was
established and familiar, is disgusting.