Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???

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From: Joel Garry
Date: Thu, 18 Jan 1996 17:51

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In article <1996Jan13.093209.111786@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu> mattsp@stat1.cc.ukans.edu (Matt Peterson) writes:
>In article <4d71ji$37j@macshack.com>
>mikemc@macshack.com (Mike McCammant) writes:
>
>> I could be wrong, but I thought I read that Apple is posting a $25M loss 
>> for the quarter due to substantially reduced sales and several/many of the 
>> top executives are leaving the company?
>> 
>> Gee, if that is not trouble, I am not sure what is  ;)
>
>
>I think the loss was due to substantially increased sales, or more
>accurately, due to the price wars and price slashing htey have been
>having with the PC venders.  Apple cut their margins substantially to
>compete with the PC cloners.  I heard that they will probably pull out
>of the low end market and let the Mac cloners compete in that area.
>

Perhaps they got suckered into underestimating the demand for their
computers thanks to all the W95 hype.  So they just couldn't make them
fast enough and lost out on the profit they could have made.

More likely they are just idiots.

jg

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Subject: Re: Debate: PowerMac "trounces" Pentium....???
Message-ID: <1996Jan18.175124.3706@rossinc.com>
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