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>Re:  Apple's appeal to stop legislation against student-discount pricing.

>The student discount program, in the long run, is a big moneymaker for
>Apple.

You are obviously very perceptive.  There should be an award for this
type of thing.

>I can see why Apple opposes this legislation.

Even greater psychic powers are at play here.  Most of us couldn't have
made that connection.

SERIOUSLY, though.  Isn't Apple--as well as the airlines--in business to
make money?  There's no pretense of a thinly-veiled public service.  (When
was the last time you went to a product intro and saw Scully or Gassee
making a presentation about this spiffy new product that they'd be selling
at their cost to benefit humankind?)  Apple wants student business.  It 
pays dividends for Apple later on so Apple can pay dividends to their 
stockholders.  That is how capitalism works.  No trickery here, just profit
motive.

>*sigh*

So what are you sighing about?  If Apple is successful in fighting this
legislation--as I hope it is--students like you will continue to be the
beneficiaries of not only Apple's, but also IBM's, Zenith's, Microsoft's,
and other's unwittingly humanitarian profit-driven discount programs.
If you don't like it, go out and pay retail!


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