Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!sjklafke From: sjklafke@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott James Klafke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: New GS ROMs Message-ID: <3893@csd4.csd.uwm.edu> Date: 18 Aug 89 15:34:00 GMT References: <8908181021.AA14047@trout> Sender: news@csd4.csd.uwm.edu Reply-To: sjklafke@csd4.csd.uwm.edu (Scott James Klafke) Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Lines: 37 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. -- Scott James Klafke (sjklafke@csd4.csd.uwm.edu) Scott & Company Business Phone Home Phone 372 E. Bay St. (414) 438-1790 (414) 744-9058 Milw., WI 53207-1236 -- It isn't creative, but it's MINE! --