Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!uwm.edu!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Apple's committment to the // line Message-ID: <8910171549.aa12634@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 16 Oct 89 18:35:10 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: School of Business - U. of Connecticut Lines: 27 On Mon, 16 Oct 89 05:00:12 GMT you said: >In article <8910140920.AA29715@trout.nosc.mil> sschneider@pro-exchange.cts.com > (The RainForest BBS) writes: >>... Apple does =INDEED= know how to make some money... and that, afterall, >>is the name of the game. > >Excuse me, but that is NOT the name of the game, at least not to the >pioneers who built this industry. Which may be why most of us associate 'pioneers' with 'ancestors' (who are no longer with us). Individuals may be idealists, but corporations have responsibilities to stock holders. Anyway, even you wouldn't identify John Sculley as a "pioneer who built this industry," and he's the one who's setting the objectives (clearly long term profit motive -- after all, it was Sculley, not too long ago, who told the financial community that Apple would pursue maintenance of profit MARGINS over increases in market share -- widely quoted in Business Week, the Wall Street Journal, and the PC press). Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@cunyvm.cuny.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] The opposite of artificial intelligence is genuine stupidity! -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)