Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!mj0i+ From: mj0i+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Marquis Eugene Jones) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Apple Dealers Message-ID: <0YsQG5y00XoZI0VENf@andrew.cmu.edu> Date: 10 Aug 89 18:08:05 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 29 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 ------------- "Byte Knight" mj0i+@andrew.cmu.edu "Disclaimer? CMU doesn't NEED disclaimers! " - Unknown, KGB