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- From: John Covington <cov3@ix.netcom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Date: Fri, 12 Jan 1996 14:35:25 -0500
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- Wells Fargo Bank wrote:
- >
- > Seems that Apple is really having a bad time with more resignations and
- > a Multi-Million dollar loss.
- >
- > I understand that they are considering aiming at the higher-end Mac market
- > and leaving the entry level machines to stream-line their company again.
- > The low-end machines are less profitable, but this could be Amigas ace
- > in the hole. I don't believe this problem with Apple will be long term,
- > but if it lasts for 4 to 6 months, it could benefit the Amiga.
-
-
- Then you don't really understand the problems at Apple, do you? What Apple is saying is that it is
- conceding the battle for market share because it can't compete. The reason Apple introduced low
- cost competitive machines in the *First place* was to bolster sales, market share, and profits
- because the *higher-end* Apple business was *already* lagging badly.
-
- I definitely believe the problems at Apple are positively long-term--if, that is, the company can
- remain in business long enough to reach the "long-term" definition--which I very much doubt.
-
- >
- > All in all, I do hope that Macs problems will be sorted out sooner than
- > later, and I also hope that while they are doing this that the Amiga
- > platform can fill what they choose not to support and produce for a
- > period of time. "I don't do windows."
- >
-
- Having lived through the Commodore collapse, I am here to tell you that the parallels between the
- demise of the two companies (Apple & Commodore) are staggering in their simularities. Of course,
- Mac Lovers don't understand this since they are thinking the very same things we did in
- '92--namely, that'll never happen to "our" company. It did, and it will.
- >
- > (wfblan@netcom.com)
-