GenieLamp editorial

[Air Lee <leed@sfsu.edu>]

Hi!
	I read the Sep 1995 issue of GenieLamp and found the editorial 
very interesting.  Doug Cuff said Apple probably didn't miss the people 
who had Apple II's and decided not to buy Macs because of the way Apple 
treated II users.  Well, I'll disagree on one point, that Apple doesn't 
miss us.  A case in point my old grammar school, which has been using 
Apple IIe's as far back as I can remember back in 6th grade, recently 
puchased a bunch of PC clones for their computer lab.  Apple if they had 
continued supporting the Apple II would have had a permanent presence in 
the educational market.  Instead they tried to push the Mac, and while a 
lot of schools jumped in, some just switched over to PC's.  

	Also, from news reports, Apple has lost a bit of it's marketshare 
in the computer world, and with the introduction of Windows 95, one 
magazine said this might sound the death kneel for Apple Computer.  Since 
I'm going to get a new computer soon to complement my Apple IIe, I was 
considering a Mac, but with the news going around about Apple, I am 
reconsidering.  Apple has missed us, they might've not missed us before 
because the Mac was way ahead of the PC a few years ago, but the PC's are 
coming on and maybe people are jumping in and leaving the Mac behind, and 
now Apple will regret that they didn't treat Apple II users right.

-Don


Donald Lee
leed@sfsu.edu
Apple II user since 1983
Plan:  To graduate from SFSU as soon as possible!  :)

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least once!  ;)

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