Re: Whatever happened to... A2GS-L01?

[Michael J. Mahon <mjmahon@aol.com>]

Rockin' Kat <rockinkat@thecowsaysmoo.org> wrote:
> On 10/21/11 1:38 PM, drkenb wrote:
>> "Coming in July 2011 will be the next generation portable Apple IIgs.
>> The all-new A2GS-L01"
>> 
>> Whatever happened to this project?  First it was going to be
>> "revealed" during Kansasfest 2010, that didn't happen&  then the above
>> was posted.  It's been 3+ months now since Kansasfest 2011, and I've
>> seen nothing about this.  The site seems to have been abandoned.
> 
> Did you try contacting them from their "contact us" form?
> http://www.a2gs.com/contact_us.html
> 
> Of course, that won't help if they aren't paying attention to it anymore,
> but you didn't say whether you'd done it already so I figured I throw it out there.
> 
> When I saw that thing announced I thought it sounded pretty cool, but it
> also sounded like it wasn't something I was going to have much hope of
> affording and I really had doubts they'd really get it out. But then, I
> tend to be overly pessimistic about stuff like this.

Your pessimism is well justified. 

Products consist of products, not pre-announcements. 

Since there is no large potential Apple II market, any pre-announcement is
unnecessary at best and worse at worst. ;-(

-michael - NadaNet 3.1 and AppleCrate II: http://home.comcast.net/~mjmahon