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- Path: grafix.xs4all.nl!rdingem
- Date: Sat, 16 Mar 96 01:17:52 GMT+1
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- Subject: Re: Amiga Technology is insulting!!
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- From: rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl (Ruud Dingemans)
- Message-ID: <rdingem.4m2c@grafix.xs4all.nl>
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- In a message of 14 Mar 96 Vasco Alexandre Da Silv wrote to All:
-
- > Meanwhile, I've been able to run my Mac programs at full speed on my
- > 030 A2000 for nearly a year now.
-
- VAD> Did you hear Apple were going to fire 1/4 of their staff, and
- VAD> reported a 100+ million $ loss ?????
-
- VAD> I think maybe even Apple won't last long...
-
- Guess again. Apple, IMHO, ain't goin' bust at the moment. They have
- lost earnings indeed - but by putting relatively cheap Macs in the
- street, they managed to increase their user base from 10 million to
- about 22 million in three years. They could survive on a fifth of
- that. In 1993, they lost big too and bounced right back the
- year after. A lot of people here act like Wall Street instant-panic
- dealers and forget to think about the bigger picture.
-
- Apple users are nearly as loyal as Amiga users. Make no mistake,
- Apple is still big and a lot of people WANT them to survive as the
- only high-street alternative to Intel and Windows. And a PowerPC Mac
- ain't no slouch compared to a Pentium, either.
-
- Regards, Ruud
- rdingem@grafix.xs4all.nl
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