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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
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To: Eric Yang who wrote (22170)1/11/1999 2:02:00 PM
From: Alomex  Read Replies (1) of 213173
 
From Salon Magazine:

salonmagazine.com

But as with the mass-audience-targeted iMac's omission of a floppy disk drive -- the least-common-denominator storage medium -- the G3s' abandonment of SCSI seems like an act of rudeness to its primary customers.

I support Apple's decision to drop the floppy, but this guy has a point. Starting from the lack of backward compatibility in the transition from Apple II to Mac, the lack of choice and upgrade option in monitor size on the original Mac and all the way to the latest decision of not having SCSI port on a machine designed for a user base with large number of SCSI devices, Apple comes across as rude, even if the decisions were technologically sound...
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