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- Subject: Re: Commenting on unannounced products
- Message-ID: <1992Jul24.060437.1@vax1.umkc.edu>
- From: tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu
- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1992 12:04:37 GMT
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- References: <1992Jul6.112359.10886@rhrk.unikl.de> <minow-140792132951@kip-6.apple.com>
- Organization: University of Missouri - Kansas City
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- In article <minow-140792132951@kip-6.apple.com>,
- minow@apple.com (Martin Minow) writes:
- > 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.
-
- Hasn't Apple been burned by this?? I recall reading that their stockholders
- had sued them for talking about products (a harddrive for the Apple II??)
- and then failing to bring them to market. The stockholders won their suit
- if my failing memory doesn't deceive me.
-
- >
- > -- 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.
-
- Maybe in light of Ken Olson's "retirement" this should be re-christened
- the "Alpha Effect."
-
- Jonathan/tmaehl@vax1.umkc.edu
-