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- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 96 00:16:47 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.47dq@grafix.xs4all.nl>
- Organization: Grafix Attack BBS Holland
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- In a message of 17 Jan 96 Jason Compton wrote to All:
-
- > : NJH> Yes, it's true. Apple now expects losses of around 65 mil for
- > : NJH> the quarter, and layoffs as high as 25%!
-
- Today on the BBC World Service I heard a mention of 10 per cent.
- Still a lot of people on the streets, though.
-
- On the other hand, Win95 doesn't seem to be going soooo rapidly
- as some people expected, either. And Linux seems to be making
- a bit of a career for itself on the PC. (Well, since it costs
- basically nothing...)
-
- > : Indeed. Remember, however, that in 1993, they lost 180+ millions and
- > : bounced right back the next year.
-
- JC> Which was 1994, and now 1995 went by with this recent bombshell.
-
- True. Apple will have to make some make-or-break decisions this year.
- The "Mac" will probably live on (even if only as an OS on the CHRP
- platform), but they'll have to decide on their corporate and cloning
- policy now or things may be heading for a sell-out.
-
- JC> you can only bounce so much before you lose your momentum.
-
- Try telling that to the Boing ball; mine is still going after
- all these years :)
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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