Re: Wozniak vs Jobs

[gr1071@aol.com (GR1071)]

GR1071 (gr1071@aol.com) wrote:

: >: Hmmm, I know it will cost me an arm and a leg, but *I* think that $teve
has
: >: deserved a few credits despite the fact he ripped off "our" Steve and
killed
: >: the A//.

: >How do you figure? He left Apple in '85, before there was a Mac Plus even.
: >Apple IIs were still going strong then.

: The magazine prose at that point in time used the phrase that the Apple II
was
: a "cash cow for the Mac." Monies made on Apple II sales were being diverted
: into Macintosh development not into the Apple II.

shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford) responded:
>Where do you think any company gets money for fielding new products? Hint:
>they don't pull it out of their asses, nor do they have a genie who grants
>wishes for money out of nowhere. I imagine everyone but militant Apple II
>users/Apple Inc. haters understand that revenue from existing products
>fuel development and marketing of new products.

This was a direct quote from the Apple II magazines from that time and may
or may not be my opinion. As others who were using the Apple II then will tell 
you a vast majority of Apple II profits went into Mac development with no Mac
money going back into the Apple II.