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In article <11540170@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> dlw@hpsmtc1.HP.COM (David Williams) writes:
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<Apple does not care about us anymore...their prices reflect that. To my mind
<the minimal Macintosh is a Mac II with at least 2 megs of memory, Color and
<at least a 90 meg hard disk. How many individuals will be able to afford this
<at the rate Apple's prices are going? Not many I assure you. 
<

Right on.

<... I don't want an Apple II, and I won't buy one. I want a Personal
<Workstation ...

Damn straight.

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< [lots of other good things to say]
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<However a word of caution that I hope the Apple employes on the net can 
<communicate up their management chain:
<
<There are a lot of little guys (I call them Change Agents) that you are leaving
<behind.  
<
<	We are the people who bought your machines in the past. 
<
<	We are the people who took your machines to work when management 
<	 said a personal comptuer had to run MS-DOS.
<
<	We are the people who develop small and large niche markets for you
<	 to penetrate by selling hardware.
<
<	We are the people who CAN NO LONGER AFFORD YOUR STATE OF THE ART
<	 MACINTOSHES.
<
<	We have to choose between buying cars, houses, feeding and clothing
<	 our families and (in the case of students) pay for our education.
<
<	Your price points no longer make it feasible for us to choose Apple.
<
<	What happened to increasing performance and functionality thru the
<	use of the declining cost of technology? What is the REAL cost 
<	differential of using a 25 mhrz 68030 in the Mac IIx or even a 33m?
<	Why didn't the SE ship with a 68000 at 16mhrz?
<
<The gap of access to technology and information has just grown wider.
<
<Perhaps some other company will step in to fill the void that exists, one can
<only hope.

Hear, hear!
(and let's hope they do)

Marc Johnson
Rockefeller Univ.

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