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- From: gwangung@carson.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: Re: Mac SE/30.
- Message-ID: <1992Dec16.164928.21973@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 16:49:28 GMT
- Article-I.D.: u.1992Dec16.164928.21973
- References: <620@blue.cis.pitt.edu> <Bz9Er2.Btv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <824@blue.cis.pitt.edu>
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- Organization: University of Washington, Seattle
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- In article <824@blue.cis.pitt.edu> nick+@pitt.edu (Nick C De Mello) writes:
- >In article <Bz9Er2.Btv@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> jgraham@bronze.ucs.indiana.edu (the End) writes:
- >>The only problem is that the main line is also suffering from the complex
- >>web of marketing schemes (eg. IIvx vs. IIcx, IIci).
- > I disagree, the IIvx doesn't seem to be such a bad machine, the LC's
- >are being made reasonable, and the si's are being buried.
-
- I think what's being missed here is that we've had what the pundits
- like to call a "paradigm shift" in computer usage. They've moved from the
- speciality, one-shot type of purchase to a more commodity-like type of
- purchasing behavior, similar to, though not the same as, the purchase of
- consumer electronics.
-
- On the one hand, you are NOT adding a whole passle of features every
- six months, either in software or hardware; the industry is too mature for
- that. On the other hand, there ARE significant advances in speed and what not
- that make individual computing power more and more affordable.
-
- The result of this is that incremental, not quantum-leap, improvements
- become more important and consumers are taking a more relaxed view of
- the marketplace and wanting something to fir their particular needs (which
- is why Mac vs. PC arguements are so ridiculous and braindead).
-
- Whether nor not Apple is taking the right strategy to this, I dunno...
-
-
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- Roger Tang, gwangung@u.washington.edu
- Producer Emeritus, Asian Theatre at the UW
- "The definition of balls is for a non-singer to go karaoke singing
- with the cast of a musical revue."
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