V131Q5CG@UBVMSC.CC.BUFFALO.EDU (John Taylor) (03/16/89)
>Date: Mon, 13 Mar 89 08:05:47 GMT >From: The Unknown User <agate!saturn!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU> >Subject: InCider buyout of A+/Death of Apple II > This is from Denise Caruso's weekly column INSIDE SILICON VALLEY on >the TECHNOLOGY page of the business section of today's (Sunday March 12) >San Francisco Examiner/Chronicle {heck, I wanted to give credit where it's >due}: Who is Denise Caruso? And why should I believe what this "article" says is true? > PLUS NO MORE: In case anyone needed proof that the Apple II's >days are numbered, A-Plus, the award-winning ZIFF-DAVIS publication that >covered the Apple II market for the last six years, has been sold to IDG in [...] >But word is that Apple II won't make it until Christmas, despite annual >sales of $6 million to $7 million. Insiders say Apple's internal disdain for >the product makes software vendors leery of developing for it. Voila! a >self-fulfilling prophecy. > END OF QUOTATION Next time you see an Apple rep., stop and talk to them about this so-called "death of the Apple ][" (I did last week). This line of machines is Apple's bread and butter; there's no reason to cancel production in the forseeable future. The corporate heads would have to be spectacularly obtuse to take such an action, considering that they're making LOTS of money here. > Also I don't understand the logic of Apple taking out FULL PAGE >ads in many newspapers last year looking for engineers to work on the >NEXT GENERATION of Apple //s if they are really going to dump it. Exactly. I wish this "next generation" would be 32-bit (RISC?) with *software* that allows ][-emulation, not hardware. Of course, that certainly would blur the line that seperates ]['s and MAC's. Think positive... *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- John Taylor -- SUNY at Buffalo | | Internet: v131q5cg@ubvmsc.cc.buffalo.edu New York: | Bitnet: v131q5cg@ubvmsc "The Vampire State" | /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\
RXBROWN@UALR.BITNET ("MR.FANTASTIC") (03/17/89)
TO John Taylor... You are exactly right... Think positive... Robert Brown BITNET: RXBROWN@UALR APPLELINK: ROBPHD