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Article #32221Re: The Death of Apple Computer (Was: Apple Gets Greedier)
From: Stephen B. Baumgarten
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 15:07
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1988 15:07
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In article <1417@garth.UUCP> fenwick@garth.UUCP (Stephen Fenwick) writes:
>Underestimating market demand is bad, and Apple should have known better.
>However, it is usually better to slightly underestimate demand (a healthy
>backlog looks very good to stockholders and Wall Street) than to overestimate
>and produce machines that must be dumped, or to idle production lines
>(a la many automobile makers).
And IBM, which is quickly becoming the K-Mart of personal computer
manufacturers (``Attention shoppers: for the next 20 minutes our dealers
will be *paying you* to take PS/2 Model 60s and 80s off their hands...'').
:-)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!seismo!sundc!pitstop!sun!amdcad!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!esquire!sbb From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: The Death of Apple Computer (Was: Apple Gets Greedier) Message-ID: <640@esquire.UUCP> Date: 16 Sep 88 15:07:44 GMT References: <70@bridge2.3Com.Com> <and> <others> <1356@sunny3.che.clarkson.edu> <1417@garth.UUCP> Reply-To: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten) Distribution: na Organization: DP&W, New York, NY Lines: 18