Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Path: utzoo!utstat!philip
From: philip@utstat.uucp (Philip McDunnough)
Subject: Re: A low blow from Apple
Message-ID: <1990Sep19.045419.19136@utstat.uucp>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 90 04:54:19 GMT
References: <35793@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> <15184@yunexus.YorkU.CA> <36597@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU>
Organization: Statistics, U. of Toronto

In article <36597@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cromwell@acsu.buffalo.edu (mark j cromwell) writes:

[ lots of stuff re the GS being dead, lack of hardware improvements,etc...]

>Apple wants the series dead. The fact  that Apple hasn't put out a significant 
>new Apple II box in 4 years proves they are trying to kill it.

Why? I don't agree.

>  In this business where processing power doubles every 5 years, the Apple II
>has languished with performance less than that of any competitor in the same 
>price range. With each passing month that Apple Computer fails to bring out 
>an Apple II with a better price/performance the deader the series gets deader.
>The software industry seems to recognize that Apple wants the II dead. How
>many new Claris Apple II products have there been in the last 4 years? How
>many companies do you know that dropped the II?

Faster computers,etc... are not what everyone needs/wants. If that were the 
case I would recommend you get a RISC computer or a 486 etc...I do agree
that the price of the GS has to be lowered. I also would love to see a
faster( not too fast) GS with a good monochrome resolution which makes use
of monitors used by the lower end Mac products.

As far as companies dropping support of the GS, many have and new ones have
come in. If there's a market you can be sure it will be filled.   

Actually processing power increases faster than you state. That doesn't
mean that the market at which the GS is aimed at needs it. Take a look
at IBM's PS/1 which is doing quite well. It's hardly a technological
giant.

Philip McDunnough
University of Toronto
philip@utstat.toronto.edu
[my opinions]

