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don winsby wrote:
> 
> Patrick O'Neil wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, 10 Jan 1996, Nevin :-] Liber wrote:
> >
> > > In article <30F46E56.6CCF@mts.se>, Martin Nisshagen <martin@mts.se> wrote:
> > >
> > > > 1. Many people belives that Apple already IS in trouble.
> > >
> > > I've been hearing this for well over a decade now.  There will always be
> > > people who believe that Apple is in trouble.
> > [...]
> >
> > And such people would be correct.  Just this very evening on the Nightly
> > News there was a story about Apple and their troubles which makes them a
> > potential prime target for a takeover if they cannot pull out.  They
> > aren't sunk yet, by any means, but they ARE taking on water and they need
> > to bail quickly and patch the holes or Apple will be IBM or Hewlett
> > Packard or somesuch.
> >
> > poneil@genetics.utah.edu
> 
> the nightly news???  what a source, a bastion of truth and insight!  did they
> mention that apple sold 3 billion $$$ this last quarter?  or did they mention
> that microsoft has sold well under what they projected of windoze 95,
> creating an inventory nightmare?

No, probably not.  But they did mention on many radio & tv news sources that the
financial picture at Apple is such that layoffs are a fact of life, and that 5-6
top end executives have bailed out over the last few weeks.

Don't get everyone wrong.  This isn't an attack on Apple; depending on needs I've
steered many friends towards MacIntoshs as computers that matched well to their
needs.  But, due to a combination of circumstances, Apple _IS_ having financial
problems right now.

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