Re: Apple III question (couldn't find a 3 group to ask)

[exegete@nunya.biz]

Jeff Blakeney wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Jul 2004 08:41:08 -0500, exegete@nunya.biz wrote:
>
>
> > My point is, that many have telescoped those years, and ignored that 
> > there was development for the II. Did Apple focus on other machines? 
> > Yes. Did Apple largely (but not totally) ignore extending and enhancing 
> > the II? Yes. Did the /// kill the II? No. The Mac did. And it took the 
> > Mac 2-3 years to do so! The Mac only began to be successful with the 
> > Plus model, and that was 1.5 - 2 years after January 1984!
>
>
> My personal take on this is that the Mac didn't kill the Apple II,
> Apple's management did.  They ignored the fact that the Apple II was
> selling better than their newer product and ignored their installed
> customer base.  Even so, they still didn't managed to kill the Apple
> II for a very long time.
Exactly!

And it took the third try (///, Lisa, Mac) to succeed. And, as you 
pointed out, even then, it took a long time.

Roy



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