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- From: fihsu@athena.mit.edu (Hsu I-wei)
- Subject: Re: Commodore's Second Quarter Results
- Message-ID: <1992Nov7.165445.6463@athena.mit.edu>
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- References: <1992Nov6.160131.27783@cs.sandia.gov> <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu>
- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 1992 16:54:45 GMT
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- In article <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett) writes:
- >In article <1992Nov6.160131.27783@cs.sandia.gov> mjsagar@sandia.gov (Mathias J Sagartz) writes:
- >>From the Wall Street Journal 11/6/92
- >>
- >>Commodore International Ltd. Had Loss of $18.8 Million for Fiscal
- >>First Quarter
- >>
- >> West Chester, Pa. - Commodore International Ltd. reported an
- >> $18.8 million loss for the quarter ended Spet. 30, saying it was
- >> hurt by softness in its main European markets.
- >>
- >> The computer maker said the first quarter of fiscal 1993 was hit
- >> particularly hard by weak markets in Germany, the biggest market
- >> for its consumer-oriented computers. [Shame on you Germans!]
-
- > Strange that this comes only a couple of weeks after Apple announced that
- >it had broken IBM's record in the personal computer industry by shipping
- >2 million systems in one year. Why is Commodore getting hit by almost 25%
- >reductions in sales, while Apple Computer is reporting record sales?
-
- Maybe you should read the article a less carelessly instead of focusing on
- "revenue losses", "loss", "hurt", "reduction" which is so typical of you.
- Apple doesn't depend on the European market the way C= does, so if C=
- "was hurt by softness in its main European markets" (which is quoted straight
- from the article, BTW), it isn't so "strange" that Apple would be doing well
- while C= ain't.
-
- >
- > BTW, if Commodore's sales continue at this pace for the remainder of the
- >fiscal year, Commodore will record their lowest sales in eight years for
- >FY1993.
-
- Oh my gosh. I can't believe it. What an outrage. C= is doomed. The Amiga is
- dead.
-
- >
- >---
- >| Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
- >--------------------------------------------------
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- Francis
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