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From: rnv@motsj1.UUCP (Ron Voss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us?
Summary: Get Real! (I'm a hypocrite)
Message-ID: <940@motsj1.UUCP>
Date: 23 Sep 88 17:32:11 GMT
References: <430043@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>
Organization: Motorola Microcomputer Division, San Jose Ca.
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In art. <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM>, dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:
> Terriann asks:
> >Whatever happened to the dream of the computer for the rest of us? To the...
> Apple's focus for the Macintosh is no longer the individual--it is the 
> individual in BUSINESS. Or the power to be your best in a CORPORATE WORLD. ..
> Steve Jobs took Jeff Raskin's vision of an appliance computer and productized
> it. John Sculley, JL Gassee have taken that vision in turn to grow Apple into
> a organization whose focus is to sell Macs to Businesses and Apple II's to

We all wish Macs cost less.  And all other products at the top of their class.
The Apple board of directors is required by law to work in the best interests
of the stockholders.  This usually means to maximize profits, short term, long 
term, and/or both.  Tell me you think they're making mistakes.  Jobs et al
made a marketing decision to sell to the rest of us.  The ploy worked on
you and me and millions.  You think the price-performance ratio is worse now?
-- 
Ron Voss, Motorola Microcomputer Div
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