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- From: hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: The Apple II Now and Forever
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- Date: 11 Dec 92 18:47:54 GMT
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- Jay M. Krell writes
-
- > Apple thinks their is a larger market for computer users, not computer
- > hobbyists. They are right. Most computer users have no need to open up their
- > computer to see what is going on, playing with softswitches, and learning how
- > their computer works. They want an idiot box. An appliance, if you will. Do
- > you know how your car, TV, and refrigerator work? Or do you just turn the key
- > and press the accelerator, punch the buttons, and leave it plugged in,
- > respectively? There are more people that don't care how their appliances work
- > than that do care. The problem is when the appliance forces you to understand
- > it. Do you buy a car w/o a radio and then install it yourself? Or would you
- > go to a "professional" to do it? Again, there are both kinds of people, but
- > most would not mess with it themselves. The non-hands-on people would rather
- > buy something that they don't have to put their hands on.
-
- Yes, you're right, the market for the consumer machine is much larger.
- But as Apple has been showing the "open it up and get your hands dirty" machine
- does just as decent of a job of acting as an applicance as a Mac does. But that
- is not my main point, my point is that Apple is neglecting a market with this
- approach of "applicance' machines with the Mac. Just with the car mentioned
- above, there are a lot of people who like to take cars apart and tinker with
- them. And those of us who like to do the same with the computers are going to
- the PC's.
-
-
-
- > The Apple II's stability is a double-edged sword. Does it do something too
- > slowly? It'll stay that way. Well, you can add a Zip. Graphics resolution too
- > low? It'll stay that way.
-
- Until the GS, Double hi-res was thought to be the best the Apple II
- could do, the Apple showed them all with Super Hi-Res. But the basic point is
- that graphics resolution is merely I/O, which can be modified. The '816 doesn't
- know about graphics, it just moves data. If it happens to be screen memory,
- well, then thats ok. If the GS had more current support, getting past Super
- Hi-Res would not be a problem.
-
- | Hal Bouma | Send mail to: HBouma@Macalstr.edu |
- | Macalester College, St. Paul, MN. | and HBouma@Macalstr.Bitnet |
- \ Things that make you go Hmmm: System 6, GNO, DreamGrafix, SoundMeister /
- \ Coming sometime this decade for the //GS : NBA! (GNO compatible too!) /
- \ Drop by and say hi to us anytime on the #AppleIIGS channel on IRC!! /
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