Re: Reply from Woz

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Flag4 writes ...
> 
> I sent the following e-mail to Steve Wozniak . . I'd like to share this with
> the group. . .
>
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> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 1999 21:50:16 -0800
> Subject: Re: A New Apple II
> From: Steve Wozniak <host@woz.org>
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> 
>    This may sound crazy, but how about creating a "new" Apple II, with
> updated components, with open source firmware and operating system.  We can
> lure the hacker community from Linux back to Apple where they belong !
 ....
> 
> (reply from Woz)
> I hope that someone does this, but I'm sure that the current Apple wouldn't
> allow it.
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     You are, very likely, on-target with your suggestion. That is, given a new,
high-performance Apple II and the opportunity to regain control of their computers, a
lot of users would dump PC.

     The 'catch', for Apple, is that the same applies to Mac. A hot new Apple II
would wipe Mac from the personal computing landscape.

     As long as Apple can hold on to some marginal share of the market-- even if
there is no hope of having any real say about the dominant OS (or much of anything
else)-- there is little chance that current Apple leadership will go anywhere near
the II series. 



Rubywand