Re: Apple III question (couldn't find a 3 group to ask)

[Roger Johnstone <rojaws@orcon.net.nz>]

In <40fefc6d_5@corp.newsgroups.com> exegete@nunya.biz wrote:
> Tadapope wrote:
> 
>> The Apple III was among other things
>> what killed the Apple II - Woz
> 
> That's hardly likely, given that the /// was killed less than a year 
> after the IIe was released, and at about the same time that the //c 
> was  released.
>
> Roy

The Apple II History has a Byte interview with Steve Wozniak from 1984, 
where he says:

"When we came out with the Apple III, the engineering staff canceled 
every Apple II engineering program that was ongoing, in expectation of 
the Apple III's success. Every single one was canceled. We really 
perceived that the Apple II would not last six months. So the company 
was almost all Apple III people, and we worked for years after that to 
try and tell the world how good the Apple III was, because we knew."

http://apple2history.org/museum/articles/byte8412/byte8412.html


My take on this is that because Apple was concentrating on the Apple III 
they basically stopped ALL Apple II development for a couple of years. 
Eventually they came out with the IIe, but it was still deliberately 
hobbled so that it wouldn't compete with the III, and was kept that way 
for another year, by which time the Macintosh was the new computer that 
the II wasn't supposed to compete with.


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Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
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