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   Alan to CrudeSausage   
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   18 Dec 25 17:41:56   
   
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   From: nuh-uh@nope.com   
      
   On 2025-12-16 12:50, CrudeSausage wrote:   
   >>>> What you've not shown are Jobs actual words, but rather others'   
   >>>> interpretations.   
   >>>  >   
   >>>> And offering higher quality for higher prices is not "giving people   
   >>>> the impression of higher quality".   
   >>>   
   >>> In other words, Alan is saying that even when he's proven wrong, he   
   >>> is right.   
   >>   
   >> Nope.   
   >>   
   >> Because you haven't even supported your first claim that:   
   >>   
   >> 'Jobs wanted to give people the IMPRESSION that their machines were   
   >> premium by charging more.'   
   >>   
   >> Actually building premium machines isn't giving people an impression   
   >> that they're premium.   
   >   
   > The Apple ][ was built better than the plastic competition, I'll give   
   > you that much. Nevertheless, it was capable of much less than even   
   > Atari's machines.   
      
   What were the release dates of each?   
      
   Back then, the pace of change was ridiculous.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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