jb10320@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Desdinova) (10/01/90)
Ladies and Gentlemen of the "NonExistant" Home Computer Market:
I present to you plans for a revolution. This may very well be the
last time an Apple II owner will have any say at Apple, as Apple
is likely going to send our machines the way of the Edsel, i.e.
good product, terrible marketing. Apple has the attitude that the
Macintosh is everything for everyone. They must be convinced they
are terribly wrong.
Go to your local dealer. Tell him if Apple drops the Apple II line
that you will never buy another Apple computer, and certainly not
from HIM.
Go to your friends with Apple IIs. Tell them to do the same.
Go to your users groups.
Go to your school board meetings.
It's time to implement the Computer Evangelism outlined in the
Apple II Infinitum papers. We've been trying to change things
at the top for years, with no discernable effect. Now it's time to
start a grass-roots campaign. Sculley is one man with one vision.
Reality is a million men and women with wildly different visions.
Apple insists they cannot survive by supporting two product lines.
I insist they cannot survive with only one.
And if this last ditch effort at a peaceful solution fails, there
will be war. Economic war. Throw every $$$ you can muster at Apple's
competition. Laser, Commodore, IBM, HP, Compaq, it doesn't matter.
As long as Apple doesn't get one more cent from you. Apple's
tyrannical marketing techniques must not go unpunished by the
market.
Those of you who don't mind trashing your $3000-$4000 Apple IIgs
system and buying a Mac so you can be "empowered"(tm), more
power to you.
Those of you who DO mind, there is only one thing to do.
Email me if you would like to help formulate a complete plan.
--
Jawaid Bazyar | Blondes in big black cars look better wearing
Senior/Computer Engineering | their dark sunglasses at night. (unk. wierdo)
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| (B O'Cult)
Apple II Users Unite! Storm the New Product Announcement and Demand Justice!jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) (10/02/90)
> Excerpts from netnews.comp.sys.apple2: 1-Oct-90 Revolution is Here! > Desdinova@uxa.cso.uiuc.e (2097) > Go to your local dealer. Tell him if Apple drops the Apple II line > that you will never buy another Apple computer, and certainly not > from HIM. Hell, guys!!! Any of you West-Coasters hip for picketing the offices in Cupertino? I think the idea of a consumer base being so loyal to a product that they picket the negligent manufacturer would be so novel that media (certainly MacWeek) would probably pick it up!! Then we got publicity!!!! I'm serious about this. Apple has used terrible business sense in handling the Apple //, especially in their empty promises. Its behavior has been appalling. Consumers should not allow large corporations to get away with this. It's not the way business should be done. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | |jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| |a700jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software| opinions, alone. | |staff/student@Carnegie Mellon U.| | Ya Gotta Love It. | -----------------------------------------------------------------------
m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) (10/03/90)
In-Reply-To: message from jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu
MY GOD, THAT'S GREAT! I love it! Are there any offices on the east coast?
Damn, now we are getting some ideas. Nice and passive and showy.
<< MCT >>
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AppleLinkPE : M Tiernan or BCS Mike
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"God isn't dead, he's only missing in action."
- Phil Ochsrkh@mtune.ATT.COM (Robert Halloran) (10/04/90)
In article <8402.apple.net@pro-angmar> m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) writes: >In-Reply-To: message from jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu > >MY GOD, THAT'S GREAT! I love it! Are there any offices on the east coast? >Damn, now we are getting some ideas. Nice and passive and showy. I don't know about any Right Coast offices (though I'm sure they exist), but I've been hearing radio ads on the NYC stations about a Mac Business Expo on the 19th at one of the local hotels. Wouldn't *THAT* be embarrassing? All the suits that they're now depending on for sales seeing complaints by the hobbyists about how Apple orphaned them; should make them think twice... Bob Halloran ========================================================================= Internet: rkh@mtune.dptg.att.com UUCP: att!mtune!rkh Disclaimer: If you think AT&T would have ME as a spokesman, you're crazed. Apple II Forever? Looks like Forever == 13 years, 6 months (4/15/77 - 10/15/90) =========================================================================
m.tiernan@pro-angmar.UUCP (Michael Tiernan) (10/05/90)
In-Reply-To: message from rkh@mtune.ATT.COM
You're right, that would be embarrasing! I'd like to see that. Anyone up for
it?
By the way, I never looked at 13.5 Years as being forever. Maybe that's a
prophacy?
<< MCT >>
GEnie : M.Tiernan
AppleLinkPE : M Tiernan or BCS Mike
Internet : pro-angmar!m.tiernan@alphalpha.com
UUCP : ...!uunet!alphalpha!pro-angmar!m.tiernan
"God isn't dead, he's only missing in action."
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