Re: //gs & SNES

[steveha@sco.COM (Steve Harris)]

>>>>     I find that most of the "announcements" Bill has been making
>>>>revolving around the now-defunct "Avatar" and this thing just serve to
>>>>get the hopes up of those few terminal die-hards who see Bill as their
>>>>saviour. It ain't gonna' happen...

I think by terminal "die-hards", Murph means "those who have not
yet sold their souls to apple.com".  I could be mistaken.

And as for "spurring hardware sales", we all know the history of the
IIGS and Apple's policy of "non-disclosure" of the availability of 
the product to their dealers.  It doesn't matter whether this was
due to a poor sales staff or a poor marketing strategy, the end
result was that AppleIIGS owners, most of whom MADE APPLE WHAT IT
IS, were left out on a limb -- buy MAC, IBM, AMIGA, etc... or
suffer it out as best you can.  

I personally cannot afford a new computer and thanks to Apple the
one I have has little resale value.  So much for loyalty.


>>    None, zero, absolutely not a single one of these so-called
>>"announcements" from Mr. Bill will lead to commercial products. I've said
>>it time and time again, he cannot make a legally acceptable product by his
>>reverse engineering of the system software. If he truly had any desire to
>>actually make any of these things into real products, rather than simply
>>pumping up his own ego, he would have tried to license the necessary
>>technologies from Apple. To the best of my knowledge, he has not done so.

Just another example of how what is "legal" in corporate terms does 
not necessarily mean what is "right".  Murph's comments come off as
"superior" at best...as if Apple dictates to the consumer what should
be done with technology that they just "sit on" while we suffer.

All I can say is that Apple is gonna be mighty surprised one of these
days, when the Mac customers wise up to their crap (ala the IIvx->Centris
fiasco).  BTW -- are the IIvx's actually selling?  How many dealers
got screwed on this one?

--Steve Harris

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