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

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

"Gary R. Utter" <utter@syndicomm.com> wrote
>
> Many things led to the demise of the Apple II. Note that by 1990 the
> Apple II+ was obsolete hardware, but the Apple II was still around and
> doing damned well. Apple could have continued to develop the Apple II,
> it was not hardware that ultimately killed it, it was Apple Inc. But
> the REASONS that they killed it were many, and ONE of those reasons was
> the weakness of the software market, and ONE of the reasons for that
> was not PIRACY in and of itself, but the presence and actions of
> Turley.
>

You give Tom WAY too much credit.  The root cause was obsolete hardware.
People don't write software for obsolete hardware- at least not if they want
to make money. People don't invest a lot of money in obsolete hardware with
a declining market share.  For example, today the Mac survives only because
the hardware is cutting edge.

> I say again, you speak from ignorance.
>

I say again- you're out of touch with reality.

>
> I think you are either being delibertely obtuse or you are a moron. We
> are not talking about todays market, we are talking about the market of
> 10-12 years ago. History you have clearly stated you know nothing
> about.
>

I'm a moron? You're the guy who thinks one odd-ball named Tom had a major
impact on the demise of the Apple II.  That's laughable.  And I just told
you I bought my first computer in '90, after carefully considering all
factors. It was a no-brainer to avoid the obsolete 8-bit and 16-bit Apple
II's when 32 bit machines were the standard at the time.  It was a
no-brainer for programmers to switch to platforms that were growing instead
of declining, too.  Tom had nothing to do with it.
-Paul