Discontinuation of the Apple II series

On 15/10/1993, Apple Inc. removed the Apple IIe from its official price lists, effectively ending the Apple II series as a line of standalone computers. The Apple II family, first introduced in 1977, had remained in production through multiple revisions including the Apple II Plus, IIe, IIc, and IIGS. By late 1993, the Apple IIe was the last remaining model still offered by Apple, primarily serving education customers who had long relied on the platform. The removal of the Apple IIe reflected Apple’s broader shift toward the Macintosh platform, which had become the company’s primary computing architecture. Although Apple had continued limited updates to the Apple II line into the early 1990s, demand had declined as Macintosh systems gained wider adoption in schools and businesses. The Apple IIe had received its final significant update with the Enhanced IIe and later the Platinum IIe, but no new major hardware revisions followed in the early 1990s. With the Apple IIe no longer listed, Apple formally concluded production and direct sales of the Apple II series. The platform had played a central role in Apple’s early growth, widely used in education, home computing, and early software development. Even after its discontinuation, Apple continued to provide limited support and documentation for existing Apple II users while focusing development resources on Macintosh systems.