Re: The sad Truth about iMac:

[CUTjefbla@bconnex.net (Jeff Blakeney)]

On 6 Mar 1999 20:45:28 GMT, Randy Shackelford
<shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>The industry obsoletes the latest and greatest so fast.

In Apple's case, they accelerate the obsolesence of their machines
themselves by releasing so many models of Macs so often.

>And as for the life
>span of Apple's stuff, support for my '93 vintage Q840av and Powerbook 520c 
>and '91 Q700 was only dropped when OS 8.5 came out.

Support doesn't usually have anything to do with obsolesence as far as
the computer industry is concerned.  Look how long Apple "supported"
the Apple II line and then look at when the industry considered the
machine obsolete.  There are a few years between them.

>I recall Jobs complaining
>during a speech that Mac owners don't upgrade as often as the Windows crowd.

Then maybe Apple should stop releasing one or more models every month.
:-)

Seriously, if Apple computer users don't upgrade very often, why does
Apple keep creating and producing so many machines so often?  Why not
hold off for a longer period of time and make a larger difference
between the last release and the new one.  That way, most of the Apple
computer users would be upgrading every release or three instead of
every tenth or twentieth.

>It's a credit to the company that their products have such a useful life span.

That is very true.  I the 16 years I've been using Apple IIs I've had
one heavily used (abused? :) Disk ][ drive fail on me and it has been
working fine since I got Apple to repair it back in 1988.

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