Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[regnirps@aol.com (Regnirps)]

Mitchell Spector (spec@vax2.concordia.ca) wrote:

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:     I'm not one of those people who'll tell you they should have
: dumped the Mac and tried surviving off the 8-bit Apple II mostly--
: with the GS a top of the line product--but there was _still_ a
: large and profitable market back in the mid/late 80's. Apple threw
: it all away, out of spite because some people in the company
: hated anything that didn't say "Macintosh" on it. Why couldn't
: they have had two product lines? You can't say the market wasn't
: there to support it, it was. Apple made a mistake--a mistake
: that was based on emotion and not logic. I know it sounds like
: a silly made up conspiracy theory, but it is the truth that
: Apple tried killing the II for many years while the Macintosh
: was (and still is today) like a regilion to Apple and users.

As I have probably mentioned, at the time of the Mac, there was an ARM based
Apple II proto that outperformed it and was cheap and 32 bits (6 MHz ARM). Not
that the StrongArm is now 200MHz and doesn't need a fan, the ARM in the Newton
was only 20 and then 40 MHz.

Steve Jobs killed the project.

Charlie Springer