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- From: hal@budapest.math.macalstr.edu (Harold Byron Bouma)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Project Apple Storm
- Message-ID: <Bz3zyp.Inv@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: 11 Dec 92 19:11:04 GMT
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- Matthew Curtin writes
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- >> for only a bit more (in computer terms) one can afford an Apple IIGS and the
- >> Apple IIe outsells it, there arises the question of what substance is
- >>running the brain of whoever makes marketing decisions at Apple.
- >
- > Ah, but the //e does not outsell the IIGS. Their sales, as disclosed by
- > Apple were equal.
-
- Ok, FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS ASKED THIS QUESTION:
-
- Those figures are from _dealerships_ across the nation, not to schools direct.
- Apple sells more //es to schools than GS's, which is the Apple II's remaining
- market. Just because the sales in the dealerships were equal does not represent
- the actual figures.
-
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