Re: "The Apple II is DEAD" - Long Live the Apple II

[bazyar@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Jawaid Bazyar)]

ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford) writes:
>Perhaps it's only "doom-smithing", but the computer industry strongly
>resembles the Video Recorder industry situation of the early and mid 80's
>with Apple (in particular the Mac) playing the role of the Sony BetaMax
>and MS-DOS that of the VHS.  Sony did not perish, but they now sell VHS

  A major flaw in this anaology is that there is software ("Beta titles")
that are simply not available on VHS (er, the PC platform). This is changing,
but there's a lot of software that's available for only one major platform.
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