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Article #32421Re: Computer for the rest of us?
From: Howard A. Landman
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1988 21:16
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 1988 21:16
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In article <3600031@iuvax> viking@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu writes: >The fact that Apple raised prices without warning (even developers found >out after the fact) makes me a bit angry and disappointed, but I'll have >to reserve judgement until the K-12 Mac and other announced products are >presented to the public before I give up on Apple totally. A moment's thought should convince you that they *HAD* to do it with no warning to get the desired effect. If they wanted to lower demand (and increase profit margin), it wouldn't make much sense to tell everyone that prices are going up in a month or three; that would cause a short-term INCREASE in demand (and more systems would be sold at the lower price). Timing of announcements is a tricky art, and companies have been destroyed by mismanaging it (e.g. Osborne). As far as I can see, Apple handled this one as well as possible. There are more important things to get mad at Apple for. Howard A. Landman landman@hanami.sun.com UUCP: sun!hanami!landman
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!purdue!decwrl!sun!hanami!landman From: landman%hanami@Sun.COM (Howard A. Landman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us? Message-ID: <69660@sun.uucp> Date: 22 Sep 88 21:16:40 GMT References: <430043@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <3600031@iuvax> Sender: news@sun.uucp Reply-To: landman@sun.UUCP (Howard A. Landman) Organization: Sun Microsystems, Mountain View Lines: 20