Re: A Tale of Two Apples

["Paul Pietromonaco" <paulp@wrq.NoSpam.com>]

pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote in article <34413305.B66@library.ucla.edu>...
> I have lost all faith in Apple Computers, Inc.
> 
<snip>

	This ought to make your day, then.  (^_-)  Check out this article from
Robert X. Cringely:
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/text.html
(It should be titled:  Warp 12 and accelerating: How Steve Jobs is
determined to save Apple or kill it, whichever comes first)
I think Robert has figured out the pattern behind Steve's weird manuovers
as of late.
	Virtually yours,
	Paul

P.S.  FYI - The Apple IIgs never competed against the Mac Plus.  The Mac
Plus was out *long* before the Apple IIgs.  What killed the Apple IIgs was
the Mac SE, which was in the same price range (i.e. ~$2500.00 equipped like
a IIgs, but the Mac SE had a hard disc) or if you wanted color and were
willing to spend more, the Macintosh II.  Against both of these machines,
with Apple not even informing the dealers that hard disc solutions were
available for the Apple IIgs, or that they could be expanded beyond 1.25
Meg with 3rd party boards, the Apple IIgs didn't stand a chance.  The
dealers made the IIgs look like a toy - and that was because they didn't
know any better because Apple wasn't telling them.

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