Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 (Fortune) 6/7/84; site dmsd.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hpda!dmsd!bass From: bass@dmsd.UUCP (John Bass) Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Apple Shafts America; or, The Comput Message-ID: <143@dmsd.UUCP> Date: Sun, 23-Sep-84 09:28:29 EDT Article-I.D.: dmsd.143 Posted: Sun Sep 23 09:28:29 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 05:44:24 EDT References: <1267@unm-cvax.UUCP>, <12500009@acf4.UUCP> <1158@hao.UUCP> Lines: 34 Too the flamers and cryers ... I don't own a MAC ... but borrow one regularly to do REAL work using beta copies of MacPlan and MacDraw over the last weeks ... I have few gripes about the product. For a machine that has only been out a few months in volume everything seems to be doing well ... Dozens of packages are hiting the market. The early IBM PC owners (and those of any other machine I can think of) went thru worse during the first 12 months of product introduction ... Apple told no lies from what I can tell from having watched the product from before it's release .... we all knew from the first day that the other products from apple were months out from First Customer Ship. As for the whine about price reductions ... WHAT THE &*^%*&^% are you (*&^(*&^%$ bitching about .... prices coming down from intial introduction is a FACT OF LIFE. If you want to talk of depreciation look at the sale price differential of a new car, mobile home, stero ... to value 12 months after introduction ... nothings changed in this world. AND Apple ramped production fast enough not to have the SHORTAGE problems found for 6-24 months typical of IBM and DEC. Cry if you wish ... but you are so spoiled as to not know what (troubles) you have missed. Whats the matter ... doesn't your mother love you? It's a shame sometimes that the freedom of speech can be used to so widely bad mouth a supplier who is bending over backward to give us a better product than the IBM PC (its clones) and simular outdated 1970's products that are 1980's trash. John Bass