Mac users are feeling our pain :)

["Terry Olsen" <tolsen64@hotmail.com>]

I found this thread on comp.lang.basic.realbasic.  The OP was moaning about 
REAL Software's "abandoning" it's original Mac user base in favor if it's 
new "windows" users.  My Reply follows the quoted paragraph.


>Think about this for a momet - would you do business
> with a company that betrayed its orginal customer base so it could sell
> more units to other customers who were not around until recent times.
> Surely you would do this to your own customers would you? Then why are you
> doing business with a company that does? It makes you just as ethically
> wrong for doing business with them.

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.

But then the Mac users come along and are evangelists for this pirate
platform that was created on the back of the Apple II.  Little do you
realize how you are doing the exact thing that you warn Windows users about
in your statement above.

...

If it's unethical for me to use REALbasic because of their abandonment of
their original customers, then it's unethical of you to support Apple for
it's abandonment of their original customers.

Apple II Infinitum
Apple II Forever
"I'll turn Blue before I buy a Mac"



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