Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!mit-eddie!bbn!rochester!uhura.cc.rochester.edu!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!itsgw!steinmetz!uunet!dalcs!aucs!peter From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Apple Gets Greedier (LONG and angry) Message-ID: <1257@aucs.UUCP> Date: 19 Sep 88 11:19:27 GMT References: <68293@sun.uucp> Distribution: na Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia Lines: 24 > Regardless of how complicated the decision is, it all comes down to the > only choice the consumer has: to buy or not to buy. As I said this > decision is just a matter of what you gain in return for what you pay. > If what you gain is avoiding the enormous cost of replacing all your Macs > or switching development platforms then it is worth it to pay the price. We have a steadily growing Mac Lab, presently equipped with Mac SE's only. That model has gone up substantially and we will now be forced to purchase what we consider obsolete technology--the Mac Plus. I'm not even convinced they'll stay around much longer and I for one do not want to buy a machine that doesn't fit into our present technology base. However, we could barely afford SE's before, now we seem to be out of luck. I agree what Apple did isn't illegal or immoral, but it is certainly extremely frustrating to those of us who are trying to convince people that Macs have a place on campus. What this decision will do is slow down our Mac growth, perhaps stop it completely for this year. Is that what Apple wants? -- Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121 UUCP: {uunet|watmath|utai|garfield}!dalcs!aucs!Peter BITNET: Peter@Acadia Internet: Peter%Acadia.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU