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- From: ddaly@draper.com (Daniel Cameron Daly)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware
- Subject: What is Apple Doing?
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.194737.2710@draper.com>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 19:47:37 GMT
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- Reply-To: ddaly@draper.com (Daniel Cameron Daly)
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- With all the trouble that Apple has had filling orders in the last few months,
- and the indications (in Macweek) that they will have sold more machines than
- IBM this year, why are they closing production plants down? A recent issue
- of MacWeek describing the availability of the new Books revelaed that Apple
- is around 100,000 units behind on delivery of PB 145,170 and the Q950. How
- many computers can they make in one day? With the introduction of the new
- Books and the vx now, plus the upcoming Q800, C610 and C650, LC III, Color
- Classic, it seems like suicide to the non-economic minded (like me) to be
- clsing down production facilities. Apple has recently demonstrated a desire
- to sell even more units to the mass-market world through Performas, and even
- mentioned that PB 100s are still being produced (MacWorld Dec issue) so what
- are they trying to do? Do they want to force people to buy Outbounds, for
- instance, or do they want this Christmas' hot item to be a PowerBook,
- instead of Transformers or Cabbage Patch Kids or Nintendo cartridges?
- Just a curious engineer trying to understand the real world. I already have
- a wunderbar PB 100, so I can just watch.
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- Daniel Cameron Daly
- ddaly@draper.com
- "He who fights and runs away, lives to nuke the site from orbit"
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