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- From: bayes@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM (Scott Bayes)
- Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 00:00:47 GMT
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Message-ID: <10520030@hplvec.LVLD.HP.COM>
- Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Loveland, CO
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- > From the 1990 Almanac (I wish I had a later one)
- > Sales in Millions:
- > IBM - 59,681
- > Apple - 4,071
- >
- > As you can see by the sales, Apple has very little to do with the
- > success of IBM.
- >
-
- Unless $2G of Apple sales cannibalized $20G of IBM sales (warning, this
- is only an example, repeat, an example) to accomplish the same amount of
- real work (read: satisfy same amount of market needs)
-
- After all, one model for the disappearance of big expensive dinosaurs is
- that cheap little mammals caused them to starve by eating their lunches.
-
- ScottB
-