Re: LPF boycott of Apple

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From: Richard Caley
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 1991 17:30

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In article <1991Oct29.122921.24775@donau.et.tudelft.nl>, Thomas Okken (to) writes:

to> Sure you're not completely callous. You decide to vilify and boycott Apple,
to> one of the very few companies that has brought some real innovation to the
to> industry[...]

Please name some of these innovations (post Apple II, some of the
things they did way back when certainly were newish).

Unless by `industry' you mean the legal and advertising branches of
their business. 

Their major innovations seems to be the realisation that you can build
a machine with a ridiculously small screen, a dire OS and a user
interface pinched from someone else, style it like a brick, save a few
cents by only having one button on the mouse and forcing the users to
learn morse and people will still buy it!

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rjc@cstr.ed.ac.uk			_O_
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