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From: mj0i+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Marquis Eugene Jones)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Apple Dealers
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Date: 10 Aug 89 18:08:05 GMT
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I'd like to add my two pennies about dealers....

First, Apple may honestly not want to nix the Apple II line, but dealers go
to great efforts to push people toward Macs.  Now, I'm in Palo Alto right
now and I talked to a couple of dealers trying to get some honest answers
to why they do this.  Answers ranged from "Progress...", to "Apple II's are
for kids...".  One particular answer which interested me was "Apple II's
didn't really make Apple, Inc. the giant it is today, the macs did by
their penetration of the business market (IBM's turf).  Thus, it is more
in my interest to push people to a more powerful and widely accepted (at
least in business) platform."  He did admit to selling GS's to people
who wanted a second computer for their kids (under 16), in hopes that
they will be prepared for a more owerful machine like the Mac IIcx.  Then,
like all good salesmen, he went off on a sales pitch for the IIcx for me.

Statements like these (off the record of course), bother me as I'm sure it
does most people that read this board.  Though Apple itself may not kill
the II line, it's dealer sure are putting a strangle hold/death grip on
it.


Marquis Jones
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