Re: why did apple go mac?

[Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>]

In article <20001201022917.20558.00002346@ng-bj1.aol.com>, 
supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) wrote:

> Simply put, the main reason Apple dropped the II was because it
> was incompatible with Jobs' vision of what a computer should be.
> Computers like the Apple II and IBM PC were "confusing."  The
> user needed to be shielded from the inner workings of the machine.

Couldn't have said that one better myself.

> He has a point but to the majority of Apple II users, the Mac was
> never and will never be accepted because WE don't do things
> that way.  WE like to expand our systems and configure them
> the way WE like it.  Sadly, Jobs seems to have ingrained even
> in Apple II users the idea that the PC is bad.  Having made the
> jump to the PC, I can say that a modern PC is 1000 times more
> similar to the Apple II experience than any Mac can be.

Well, a majority of the Apple II users I deal with (actual physical
contact, not internet based people) use Macs in addition to or now
as a replacement for their Apple II.  Personally, I don't care for
the pain that is Windows that is required to make the most out of
the average Wintel machine.  And I don't care for unix.  That leaves
the Mac which I don't have any problems with.  Everything I've needed
to add I've been able to add, and there's other stuff out there that
I'd like to add but can't afford yet.

Now I, as most of the aforementioned Apple II users I know, have never
really gotten into delving into the Apple II.  Most of us were the type
where you put in the disk and started the program.  I get the exact same
experience on the Mac but I find it more user friendly.

Greg B.

PS.  Personally, I'd never buy an iMac or Cube to replace my current
PM7500, but I know of a lot of people who have been perfectly happy
with an iMac.  They don't need anything more.
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