Re: Apple //f...

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <19990704034344.18131.00010491@ng-fr1.aol.com>,
Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

>>The date on this should tell you something.  Since this
>>original posting, Apple has sold all rights to the Apple //
>>line to Sun Remarketing and has discontinued the line
>>themselves.
>
>Apple has sold the rights of the Apple II to nobody.  Some
>companies did want to buy the rights to the IIGS when Apple
>discontinued it, but they were rebuffed by Apple.

I take it to mean that Apple has arranged for Sun to handle service stock
and the like. Kinda like how Sun has been the only place to get Apple III
and Lisa stuff for approximately forever. You don't really think you could
haula busted Apple II into CompUSA and get it fixed now do you? The old
fashioned full blown Apple dealer concept is almost as passe as Apple IIs
are these days.

>Since the "Mac" GUI is embedded in the IIGS, it is doubtful
>that Apple would sell the rights to the IIGS even to this day.
>It would be too easy for someone to take that GUI out of the
>IIGS and wrap it in modern hardware (maybe even in a PC)
>and challenge the Mac.
>
>Think about it.  Some company buys the IIGS.  It takes only
>the GUI out of it.  It then builds an OS around that GUI and
>sells the OS for PCs.  That's something Apple is too smart
>to allow happen.

Uh, GUIs aren't that hard to come by. Don't see BeOS for Intel or anything
else challenging the Gates empire exactly. There is no room in the market
for anyone besides Mac and Wintel any more.
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