On May 25, 12:53 pm, "Michael J. Mahon" <mjma...@aol.com> wrote:
John wrote:
It's a shame 5.1 was introduced just as everything Apple II was collapsing.
But, that's the way it goes.
No, that's the way someone decided to do it. There were choices.
FWIW the better business applications for the TRS-80 Model 1 came at
the tail end of it's life, like LeScript.
Of course, the natural decline of a platform is convolved with the
rising state of the application art, so it's not surprising that
there are late-breaking fine programs on failing platforms.
But the majority of the software development community has by that
time already read the tea leaves and abandoned the platform in
search of greener pastures.
The exception might be small firms that have invested a year or two
to create an application and continue even in the face of lackluster
prospects. Some even specialize in serving residual niche markets.
That's kind of what I was thinking: it is *hard* to write good
software and so many businesses would be too cautious before making
the investments. By then it's late, the target is obsolete, the market
shrinks.