Re: Of course we can trust Apple for our next OS!

[ethorne@chicagonet.net (Edwin E. Thorne)]

In article <3522a324.439767082@roch-news>, wsmith@NOSPAM.ctron.com (Will
Smith) wrote:

>On 1 Apr 1998 17:11:04 GMT, "Edwin E. Thorne"
><edwin.thorne@rauland.com> wrote:
>
>|>I have a slogan of my own.   It's "Who cares about the Apple II?"   (No
>|>offense intended to Apple II users, but I personally have as much use for
>|>an Apple II as a Wintel user would).
>
>none taken, 'cause it's your perogative....
>
>|>I never owned an Apple II.   I couldn't afford one, so I bought a Commodore
>|>64.
>
>i have the same feelings about the Commie 64 as you do about the
>Apple II series...

Actually, I have feelings of jealousy for the Apple II series.  I would
have bought an Apple II instead of a C64 if I could have afforded one.  
The C64 was touted has having all the hardware features of the Apple II at
a fraction of the price.  I'll never know if that's true or not, but it's
a moot point, as I gave up the C64 long ago. It's a game machine for my
young nephews now, at least until they finish beating it to death. ;-) 
It's also a moot point because the Apple II is obsolete and no longer
made.


>
>|>In 1996 I bought a Macintosh Performa 6400/180, and I am entirely satisfied
>|>with it and the Mac OS, and I am pleased with the future course of the Mac.
>
>ugh.  i never really cared for the Mac, in ANY of its incarnations. 

Why not?  Why is the Apple II better than a Mac?

 i
>like WinDOZE even less.

Well, at least we can agree on this!  :-)
>
>|>Now I have to hear criticism that is designed to bring down the maker of
>|>the computer I chose to buy, based on them discontinuing a computer I would
>|>have never bought.    
>
>eh.  i'm only reading this 'cause somebody added comp.sys.apple2 to
>the list of newsgroups, and i'm sure that this is (generally) how you
>managed to hear all that "Mac is EVIL!" stuff from some of us...  :)

Yeah, the guy I originally responded to cross-posted to every Mac group he
could think of, and your group too. 

>|>Here's a list of stuff I would have never bought from Apple:
>|>Apple II
>|>Newton
>|>A/UX
>
>never bought a Newton, wouldn't have THOUGHT to try A/UX...  i HAVE a
>//gs, though. <g>


I really don't have anything against the Apple II as a computer.   I
couldn't afford one when it was new, and I'm not going to try to turn back
the clock and get an old machine.   To of my co-workers own Apple IIs (I
don't know what series).   What makes these machines so hard to give up?

snip.

The main point in what I am saying is that it's time to get off Apple's
case about the Apple II.  Sure it may well have been (and still be) a
great computer.  But time and technology move always forward.  Apple isn't
going to stop making Macs and go back to making Apple II machines.  
Bringing Apple down won't change this fact of life.

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