[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

Re: why did apple go mac?

Your capsule history seems well reasoned. I think that you underemphasized
Steve Jobs' unending contempt for existing-technology products that are
actually shipping and producing revenue, but I think you pretty well nailed
it.

If Apple had decided to compete on price instead of going for niche markets
and obscene profit margins, the Mac could have BURIED the PC.

Everyone agrees that the 6502 was coming to the end of the line, and thus a
migration to another CPU was inevitable. At the same time, GSOS users
preferred to migrate to the Mac because of the similarity of the GUIs. This
discussion would not be occurring if Apple had initially built a slot-based
Macintosh (or at least a Mac that wasn't a toy like the early models were,)
provided migration tools, and named it the "Apple IV."

"Roger Johnstone" <rojaws@mac.com> wrote in message
news:91h39u$boj$1@lust.ihug.co.nz...
>
> >> why did apple 'upgrade' to the macintosh when
> >>the ][ series was still going strong? i mean the
> >>][GS came after the mac! why switch? why didn't
> >>apple just keep improving the ]['s, like IBM did
> >>with the PC?
>
> As Apple II users it sucked, from Apple Computer's point of view it was
the
> right business decision to make. In retrospect, the right thing for Apple
to
> have done was to never have released the Apple IIgs, but a Mac with Apple
II
> compatibility, like the Mac LC had, but in 1986, not 1990. This would have
> enabled all the Apple II users to have an upgrade path to the Macintosh.
> Alternatively, rather than releasing the Lisa/Mac as a new computer they
> could have introduced the GUI using a souped-up Apple II, similar to the
> IIgs.
>
> --
> Roger Johnstone, Invercargill, New Zealand
>
> Apple II - Future Cop:LAPD - Warcraft II
> http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~rojaws
> ______________________________________________________________________
>
> "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home."
> Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977