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Re: Mac users are feeling our pain :)
- Subject: Re: Mac users are feeling our pain :)
- From: "Peter de Vroomen" <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com>
- Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 13:00:08 +0200
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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- Reply-to: "Peter de Vroomen" <peterv[at][spamblock]jaytown[dot]com>
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> Which is exactly why I do NOT do business with Apple. I was, am still am,
an
> Apple IIe/c/gs user. The Apple II family was the cash cow for Apple back
in
> the day. Then Sculley & Jobs dumped the Apple II in favor of the
> non-backward-compatible Mac platform. I, and all of my contemporaries at
> the time vowed never to buy another Apple product (unless it was an Apple
II
> found at a thrift store). To this day, I have not done business with
Apple,
> and I never plan to.
Yes, for exactly the same reasons I do not do business with Microsoft and
still program in BASIC. Microsoft dumped BASIC in favor of C++, and I vowed
never to buy another Microsoft product (unless it was a Microsoft BASIC
version found at a thrift store).
PeterV