--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Also consider that magazines with the word "Mac" in > the title are legally beholden to Apple Computer > (who owns this trademark and issues licenses to use > it) and have contractual guidelines they have to > adhere to continue licensing the Apple brand name. > So the obvious question, where is the profit for > Apple in "promoting" legacy Macs? The obvious > answer, nowhere, that's where. I mean let's get > serious here. > Tom > While you're correct in Apple having no interest in promoting legacy Macs, Mac magazines are not legally beholden to Apple and do not have contractual obligations to Apple Computer, Inc. except in regard to ads that Apple runs in the magazine. MacWorld, MacTech, MacAddict, MacHome -- to name a few -- do not license the use of the name "Mac." But, yes, Apple wishes that all of its old machines would just go away and be replaced by new models.
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