Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!saturn!ucscb.UCSC.EDU!unknown From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: the whole apple II line.(warning: long market stats) Message-ID: <9308@saturn.ucsc.edu> Date: 4 Oct 89 01:55:30 GMT References: <8910031017.AA08478@trout.nosc.mil> Sender: usenet@saturn.ucsc.edu Reply-To: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User) Organization: UCSC Undergrads Lines: 29 In an article, sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com (The RainForest BBS) wrote: >Comment to message from: jabernathy@pro-houston.cts.com (Joe Abernathy) > >I disagree... the =ONLY= reason Apple maintains utilized to the max> its presence in the School market is the discounts it >offered from the beginning. Note that when Jobs started to market the neXt >computer he went the same way... MAXIMUM discounts to the schools. I realize >this is an Apple feed (and I =DO= run an Apple//e BBS) but REALITY and COST >point to a different direction for normal >users. I disagree with what you said... The reason Apple went into schools was the INTELLIGENT (or maybe not..it's OBVIOUS) observation that if you have everyone using Apples at school, then when the family buys a computer for the home (AT FULL PRICE), they will get an Apple. {"But mommy, we use APPLE computers at school! Can't we have one of those??"} So Apple's discounts/giveaways have paid for themselves MANY MANY times over... We got an Apple at home (and now I have the "same" computer upgraded to a GS at school) because Apples were the first computers I ever seriously used in school... (I'm a junior in college now... In 6th grade, I had a little experience with a Commodore PET computer.. Basically all I remember about that was playing SABOTAGE and the weird "graphic chars" that all of the keys had). -- unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User) also mailable at unknown@darkside.com The first address is preferable during the school year.