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

[Jeff Blakeney <CUTjblakeney@sympatico.ca>]

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.

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 Jeff Blakeney - Dean of the Apple II University in the
                 Apple II Community on Syndicomm.com
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