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- From: minow@apple.com (Martin Minow)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
- Subject: Commenting on unannounced products
- Message-ID: <minow-140792132951@kip-6.apple.com>
- Date: 14 Jul 92 20:39:06 GMT
- References: <1992Jul6.112359.10886@rhrk.unikl.de> <1992Jul10.115511.4720@uswmrg.mrg.uswest.com.mrg.uswest.com> <1992Jul10.192043.23252@cheshire.oxy.edu> <Br6z9B.F2p@world.std.com>
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- In article <Br6z9B.F2p@world.std.com>, siegel@world.std.com (Rich Siegel)
- wrote:
- >
- > Actually, my standard response was "we cannot comment on unannounced
- > products or future releases". This line was dictated by the "MBA
- > degreed automatons", and became an imperative after Symantec went
- > public.
-
- There are several reasons why it is unwise to comment on unannounced
- products:
-
- -- The SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) may consider this as
- an attempt to increase the value of a company's stock.
-
- -- If something changes and the unannounced product is not released on
- time,
- or never released, or does something other than the non-announcement,
- someone
- who made a decision based on the non-announcement may be rightly annoyed.
-
- -- The "Osborne Effect" (named after the first portable computer): if you
- announce the "Osborne 2," everybody stops buying the Osborne 1 and your
- cash-flow dries up.
-
- Martin Minow
- minow@apple.com
- The above does not represent the position of Apple Computer
-