DSEAH@WPI.BITNET (02/03/89)
Apple Rocks. That used to be my war cry. (with enthusiasm) Apple Rocks! (better, but try again...) For Crying Out Loud, Apple Rocks! Ok? Quit Bugging me! It rocks! We rock! (...) (Take a rest, and let's wait till AppleFest) Has anybody ever seen some kind of definitive marketing plan for Apple Corp? I keep hearing, "Oh yes, the Apple II has a niche in Education!" but with these rumors of new educational Macs this seems moot. Macs are encroaching on us from every direction! Will the II be relegated to the dominion of primary schools and day care centers? At the same time, it seems that Apple is chipping away at the product differentiation between their two lines. Is a big merge inevitable? With a cheap (make that "not as expensive") color Mac, the two lines will become as one in appearance! Peripherals will be shared! Data will be interchangable! Programming enviroments will compile to either GS or Macintosh object code! Then, when the Apple IIe software trickles into obsolescence, Apple can drop the IIe compatibility altogether and support only the Mac, which by this time has enough cross developed applications from the GS (and vice versa) to fly by itself without a bump. Is this inevitable? I suppose that this would take five to eight years to happen. I am still wondering if this is a bad thing or not. Has the industry entered a new paradigm state? No more can we heartily ignore the tools and heedlessly stomp over bitpicked memory maps. *sigh* It was fun while it lasted. +-------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Seah --- Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Computer Engineering +-------------------------------------------------+ Class of 1990 | BITNET: dseah@wpi.bitnet | | INTERNET: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu | Oh yeah, | AppleLink PE: Omnitreant | APPLE ROCKS! +-------------------------------------------------+