Re: ANN: Retiring from A2 world - Good Bye All!

["Paul Grammens" <grammens@svn.net>]

"Gary R. Utter" <utter@syndicomm.com> wrote
>
> You can think what you want, but I was THERE.  Tom and his little crew
> quite literally drove away developers (a lot of them hobbyists, yes,
> but developers nonetheless).

I wonder if Tom could bring Micro$oft to its knees...  nah, Bill Gates
thrives with piracy many orders of magnitude greater than Tom ever
generated.  What really drove Apple II developers away was people like me. I
bought my first computer in 1990. I considered buying a used Apple II for
$500, but instead bought a new 386-25 clone for $2000. Even to my uneducated
eye, the Apple II was seriously obsolete, and my computer-savvy friends
didn't even consider it to be in the running. Oh yeah, piracy was rampant in
the PC world, yet PC developers thrived.  Got that? It was obsolete
hardware, not piracy that led to the demise of the Apple II.

>
> What it really REALLY comes down to is this. You don't know what you
> are talking about. You have walked in here well past the middle of the
> movie, and while you think you know what's going on, you don't.

I think I have a good handle on the reality of  today. I think you're out of
touch with the reality of today.

> Those of
> us who have been in the Apple II world since the mid '80s think you're
> pretty much of a fool. That doesn't make you a bad person, but it
> doesn't get you a lot of respect either.

I think those of you who are still acting like it's the mid '80's are pretty
much fools.
It doesn't make you bad people, but it doesn't get you a lot of respect
either.
It's 2002. Next year will be 10 yrs since Apple stopped making Apple II's.
It's a hobbiest platform, with no economic value.  It's still fun, and of
historical interest, but there's very little money in it. Get over it.
-Paul