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- From: mathew <mathew@mantis.co.uk>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Subject: Re: MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <i1NNPB15w165w@mantis.co.uk>
- Date: Mon, 17 Aug 92 15:41:53 BST
- References: <1992Aug14.182221.6980@tamsun.tamu.edu>
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- Organization: Mantis Consultants, Cambridge. UK.
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- dlb5404@tamsun.tamu.edu (Daryl Biberdorf) writes:
- > In article <c0wHPB5w165w@mantis.co.uk> mathew@mantis.co.uk (mathew) writes:
- > >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.
- >
- > There will *ALWAYS* be *someone* who purchases something, only to
- > find out it's discontinued not too long after that purchase unless
- > a company puts a product line into production forever.
-
- Yeah, but halving the price of something within six months says to me that
- someone overpriced it to start with...
-
- > You buy a 1992 model car this year, maybe the 1993 model will be
- > completely different.
-
- Yeah, but if I buy the January 1992 model as it's released I don't expect it
- to be half the price in March and no longer shipping to dealers in July.
-
- > Macintoshes are no different than any other product of any type in
- > this regard.
-
- Actually, they are. I came from an Atari background. Atari generally launch
- their new machines at low prices, rather than halving the price after six
- months.
-
- > The nicest thing that I can see about the Mac is the fact that,
- > even if you're not running the latest, fastest, whizbangingest
- > machine, it still runs all the software that both the older *and*
- > newer ones do.
-
- Well, almost. I'm pretty pissed off whenever I download some neat piece of
- software only to have it say "This program requires 32-bit QuickDraw".
-
- > Well, everyone complained when Apple didn't keep up with the
- > plummeting price/performance ratios of the Intel-based clones. Now
- > that Apple is more or less keeping up (albeit with slightly larger
- > margins than the clones), people complain because their machines become
- > obsolete so quickly. You can't have your cake and eat it too.
-
- I don't care if the machines become obsolete, actually. I expected my
- machine to be obsolete within 2 years. I do care if they plummet in price
- before becoming obsolete, however.
-
-
- mathew
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