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- From: ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: Macs cost too much (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <92212.165324ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- Date: 30 Jul 92 15:53:24 GMT
- References: <920541.2A74E391@cmhgate.fidonet.org> <14878@claris.com>
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- Organization: KFA Forschungszentrum Juelich
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- In article <lefty-290792163808@lefty.apple.com>, lefty@apple.com (David "Lefty"
- Schlesinger) says:
- >
- >> "[Apple executives] made it clear to [analysts] that they will
- >> aggressively price their products soon," said John Girton, vice
- >> president of research for Van Kasper & Co. in San Francisco.
- >> feeling the pinch of the much cheaper PC clones.
- >
- >With all due respect, I think this is a misinterpretation.
- >
- >If you look back over the past couple of years, Apple has been increasing
- >pressure on the clone makers by aggressively lowering Macintosh prices,
- >rather than the other way around.
- >
- It`s pretty much irrelevant which way round it is as long as prices go down.
-
- >All the above quote suggests is that we're going to continue to do so.
-
- GO ON. Nobody will stop you. /:-)
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- Michael Bode.
-