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- From: mike_steiner@qm.claris.com (Mike Steiner)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: DISRUPT 7.1 LINES
- Message-ID: <mike_steiner-091192170242@192.35.50.131>
- Date: 10 Nov 92 01:05:08 GMT
- References: <933750.2AF1677C@cmhgate.fidonet.org>
- Sender: news@claris.com
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- In article <933750.2AF1677C@cmhgate.fidonet.org>,
- Adam.Frix@p18.f20.n226.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Adam Frix) wrote:
- >
- > franklin@ug.cs.dal.ca (Steve Franklin) writes:
- >
- > > Never buy *anything* based on what it *might* do in the future.
- > >
- > SF> Translation: Never consider Apple to be anything but average.
- > SF>
- > SF> I made this mistake, and continue to do so with Apple. You
- > SF> see, I do expect Apple to use foresight, and maintain a bit
- > SF> of loyalty with it's users.
- >
- > Where, oh where is bc@apple.com with his little wallet card about how Apple's
- > mission is to make the world a more pleasant place to live, to change the
- > world, etc., etc?
- >
- > Seems to me I went over this a few months ago--about how Apple is strictly in
- > business to make money, whether that involves "changing the world" or making
- > bra straps. I was taken to task, somewhat vehemently, by some Apple employees
- > and brown-nosing unpaid evangelists (Edward V. Wright comes to mind). How
- > _dare_ I think that Apple's just in it for the money!
- >
- > I feel vindicated. The Emperor has no clothes.
-
- Adam, if you think that you're vindicated by Steve Franklin's ravings,
- you've backed the wrong person.
-
- You're half right, though. Apple is in it for the money, but not just for
- the money. If Apple were in it just for the money, they would be making MS
- DOS clones and would have dropped the Mac long ago.
-
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