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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Powerbook 100 (was Re: Powerbook, Price Club, pricing)
- Message-ID: <9uBooB23w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 13:43:31 BST
- References: <D2150035.9jsjhn@outpost.SF-Bay.org>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- peirce@outpost.SF-Bay.org (Michael Peirce) writes:
- > In article <sgXkoB7w165w@mantis.co.uk> (comp.sys.mac.misc), mathew@mantis.co.
- > > after being stung on the PB100, there's absolutely no way I'm going to buy
- > > Newton when it comes out. I'll wait six months to a year and buy it for a
- > > third of the price.
- >
- > I don't understand. Why has Apple stung these people when they buy
- > a PB100?
-
- If the machine can currently be sold at a profit for #900, the inference is
- that the month before when I bought it for #1400 someone made #500 of pure
- profit, no?
-
- > They got a good machine at a price they were willing to
- > pay.
-
- Yup... but they then discovered that if you wait six months, you get the
- machine for half the price.
-
- If people wait around six months before buying a new Mac model, it doesn't
- matter. If people wait around six months before touching Newton, it could
- kill the product.
-
- > No one should ever buy a computer (any brand!) thinking they are gettting
- > a machine that will hold its value.
-
- True, but from #1900 to #900 in six months is pretty steep.
-
-
- mathew
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- stone and a single note 'G' from CNN's ident theme) managed to convey a
- sense of rampant impropriety." -- 'Fortran Five', Simon G. Lawrence Leonard
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