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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <c0wHPB5w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Fri, 14 Aug 92 13:15:59 BST
- References: <1992Aug13.141824.17000@nsisrv.gsfc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- smoon@strfleet.gsfc.nasa.gov (Sang J. Moon) writes:
- > Mac users are also complaining. Macweek has even taken the stand that
- > Macs cost too much:
- >
- > "What can Apple do to respond? For the long haul, the right answer
- > is to stick to the strategy the company already is pursuing:
- > developing innovative software that reinforces the Mac advantage,
- > making it easier for Mac users to fit into enterprise networks, and
- > accelerating development of the PowerPC Macs.
- > But in the short run, significant price cuts are overdue, and
- > this time they should start at the top of the line."
- >
- > -excerpt from editorial in MacWeek 8/10/92, p.48.
-
- Then again, making products obsolete within a year and halving the price in
- the first six months isn't the way to do it either.
-
- I know I moaned about this a week ago, but I'm not the only person fed up
- with being sold a brand new machine which is in the shops at half the price
- two months later, and discontinued shortly after that.
-
- MacUser magazine in the UK is specifically advising readers not to buy any
- Apple equipment, because of the crashing prices and high-speed obsolescence
- of the machines. They say to wait for Apple to get its act together.
-
-
- mathew
- --
- "Even the most bizarre of the unions (probably that between a cat's gall
- stone and a single note 'G' from CNN's ident theme) managed to convey a
- sense of rampant impropriety." -- 'Fortran Five', Simon G. Lawrence Leonard
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