Re: Does Apple miss us?

[Enigma <llay@sdcc10.ucsd.edu>]

On 21 Sep 1995, David DeMello wrote:

> So what should Apple have done? Throw away the future of computing to keep
> an old dog like the Apple ][ on life-support. Progress can't always move
> along straight, unbroken lines. Sometimes you have to cut your losses. I
> thought it showed great foresight on Apple's part when they discontinued
> the line, and now we have really terrific machines coming out that blow
> the old stuff out of the water.

Although I do agree, that Macs are more powerful than the GS, and I do see
that schools need the newer, more powerful Macs to drive multimedia
software. But what Apple II supporters are saying is, Apple IIs are simple
machines that gets things done. The IIs are like Toyota Corolla compared
to a Ferrari (sp?)--they may not accelerate from 0-60 under 4 seconds, but
they get day-to-day things done--and done right. 

Apple should have evolved the Apple IIs into Macs. But instead, they
introduced the Macs in 1984 as a completely new computer. As a result, the
company divided into two groups--the Mac people and the II People.  What's
worse is they gave the IIs a little attention once in a while, just enough
to keep it going then turns away its attention to the Macs.  It's kind of
like using a straw to suck all the money they could from these machines,
then dump them. Had they evolve the IIs into a Mac by providing backward
compatibility and so on--perhaps there will be no more Apple II. 

Apparantly Apple had learned its lesson when it move the Mac onto 
PowerPC.