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From: sjklafke@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott James Klafke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: New GS ROMs
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Date: 18 Aug 89 15:34:00 GMT
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In article <8908181021.AA14047@trout> lhaider@pro-sol.cts.com (Lawrence Haider) writes:
>Network Comment: to #10079 by haven!adm!smoke!gwyn@purdue.edu
>
>>This is rationalization, not reasoning.  Do you really expect to be able to
>>take your automobile back to the dealer when a new model comes out and insist
>>on a free upgrade of every component that the manufacturer was able to 
>>improve between models?
>
>Why does everyone want to compare Apples to Automobiles?  It is NOT the same
>thing!  Think about component costs and labor required to make an upgrade in
>a car and compare that with the component costs and labor required to upgrade
>a computer (or software for that matter) and you'll find that a computer
>doesn't ever come in spitting distance of the costs of car work.  A car dealer
>dosn't make as much off of selling a car (percentage wise) as Apple makes off
>of their machines, and upgrading one has just about NO relation to the other. 
>If you want to take Apples side, PLEASE make a better analogy!
>
>                                        Laer

There is also another problem, which I feel is the big one. SOFTWARE. Now the
developers will be producing for //gs'+' (whatever), and the //gs original
owners will be left out in the cold. I have a //e, and I don't mind the
//e - //gs differences, they are totally different computers and are
alot different from each other, but the //gs'+' is not as major of a change
as was the //e - //gs change.

A car doesn't get new software made for it, computers do. A car runs on gasoline
, which will run on any car. Computers have all different 'gasolines', granted,
but changing the 'car' slightly so it cannot run on the 'gas' that is being
produced is silly.


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