Re: Mac users are feeling our pain :)

[Gregory Weston <uce@splook.com>]

In article <446f200f$0$24259$88260bb3@free.teranews.com>,
 "Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I found this thread on comp.lang.basic.realbasic.  The OP was moaning about 
> REAL Software's "abandoning" it's original Mac user base in favor if it's 
> new "windows" users.  My Reply follows the quoted paragraph.
> 
> >Think about this for a momet - would you do business
> > with a company that betrayed its orginal customer base so it could sell
> > more units to other customers who were not around until recent times.
> > Surely you would do this to your own customers would you? Then why are you
> > doing business with a company that does? It makes you just as ethically
> > wrong for doing business with them.
> 
> Which is exactly why I do NOT do business with Apple. I was, am still am, an
> Apple IIe/c/gs user.  The Apple II family was the cash cow for Apple back in
> the day.  Then Sculley & Jobs dumped the Apple II in favor of the
> non-backward-compatible Mac platform.  I, and all of my contemporaries at
> the time vowed never to buy another Apple product (unless it was an Apple II
> found at a thrift store). To this day, I have not done business with Apple,
> and I never plan to.

Does that make those of us who are both II and Mac users collaborators?

G

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