Re: Apple Computer, What Are You Up To?

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net> wrote:

>Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:
>
>: Again, the cost excuse.  Apple said the same thing back in the days of
>: the Apple IIGS when they built in a 32 channel wavetable chip by
>: Ensoniq (which still makes amazing audio silicon and keyboards) and
>: didn't put in a $5 pre-amp/cable setup for audio input.  The iMac has
>: a floppy controller on the motherboard and Apple neglected to put
>: in a $5 cable to connect it to the back panel so that users could add
>: a floppy drive from an old Mac or IIGS.
>
>Apple hasn't made a Mac with a floppy port since '91 and hasn't made an
>external floppy since '93ish. So you can forget that idea. In this day of
>networks, rewritable CDs, and Zip disks, floppy drives are superfluous for
>most people. I can certainly say mine rarely get used since everything
>I use is on a network.

Good point.  However, all Macs before iMac have a floppy drive.
The iMac itself has a floppy controller on the motherboard.  What
I'm saying is that the floppy drive, whether internal or external,
is part of what people have been using.  Why does Apple not include
a port on the back?  If they don't want to spend money on an internal
floppy, an external port is at least a transition.  Why chop it out
right away?

Answer: Apple's "I say so, everyone must think my way" philosophy.
Company policy is that 3.5" floppies are bad so all users must abide.
Why can't Apple behave like a normal company and go with the
customer's wishes?