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On 16 Jan 1996 17:35:33 GMT, christw@meaddata.com (Christopher C.
Wood) wrote:

>In article <Pine.SOL.3.91.960115131300.17718A-100000@howard>, Patrick O'Neil <patrick@howard.genetics.utah.edu> writes:
>
>|> Oh I would trust Peter Jennings at an Apple computer convention
>|> over the people on the internet who have an emotional stake in
>|> their own Apple computer any day.  They didnt just SAY that Apple
>|> was having problems, they actually interviewed industry people as
>|> well as several Apple employees.
>
>I have no idea who in "the industry" was interviewed.  But experts in
>"the industry" can be dramatically wrong about short-term projections,
>such as the Summer 1995 projections that Win95 would sell 40 Million
>copies in 1995.  Sales were close to 7 Million copies.  Apple has more
>than enough cash on hand to operate losing $68 Billion a quarter for
>quite some time.  Much longer than experts in "the industry" are
>capable of projecting...

Who said there would be 40 million?  The most optimistic was
Dataquest, who stated 30 million _shipped_, 20 million _sold_. 

The 7 million figure is about two months worth of sales- not 1995.
They were all sell-throughs.