Re- The Apple II Now and Fo

[joe_luzzi@QMBRIDGE.CALSTATE.EDU ("Joe Luzzi")]

                                                               Time: 9:38
AM
                                                               Date:
12/10/92
Subject:  Re: The Apple II Now and Forever



In article <Byr8tx.DH0@news.iastate.edu>, hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu
(Harold Byron Bouma) wrote:

> 
> 	First of all, it was Apple's decision to make the GS more like a Mac.  
> Why? Because not only is it a useful GUI that they had already 
> spent lots of  
> R&d into, but they thought it would make getting us to buy Macs in the 
> future easier.

Right, Apple hoped to get Apple II users to buy Macs by introducing a
completely new and awesome Apple II :-)  At the time the IIgs came out, 
I was in the market for a new computer.  I looked at Macs, IBMs and 
the IIgs.  IBMs were out.  The Mac was out because it provided
no upgrade path from my Apple IIe (all my old software would 
have been useless), and it had no color.  So, I got the IIgs 
and have been very satisfied!  I think Apple made a mistake when 
they introduced the IIgs, though.  If Apple was planning to win 
Apple II users to the Mac by introducing the IIgs, I don't know 
what they were thinking.  What they should have done was introduce
the Mac LC w/ IIe card.  This would have provided a nice transition
for II users to the Mac world.  Although, I would have wanted the 
Mac LC to have more slots like the IIe did.  If Apple had introduced 
the Mac LC w/Apple IIe card instead of the IIgs, I'd probably 
own one today.  But, they didn't and Apple has paid dearly for 
this mistake with unhappy Apple II and IIgs users who are feeling 
abandoned.

Don't get me wrong, I like my Apple IIgs with a passion!  I just think that
if Apple didn't plan on supporting the IIgs along with the Mac, they should
have made this point know way earlier and should have provided a good
upgrade path from the Apple IIe, like the Mac LC w/IIe card would have
been.


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Joe M. Luzzi
CSU Fullerton    Joe@fullerton.edu