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From: esker@abaa.uucp (Lawrence Esker)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Digital Animation Production
Message-ID: <4946@abaa.UUCP>
Date: 20 Nov 89 21:59:13 GMT
References: <4461@nigel.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker)
Organization: Allen Bradley
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In article <4461@nigel.udel.EDU> C503719@umcvmb.missouri.edu (Baird McIntosh) writes:
>In article <42803@bu-cs.bu.edu>, bear@bu-pub.bu.edu (Blair M. Burtan) writes:
>>  ...boards will run on PC and Amigas as well as some high-end workstations.
>>  But the designer has no intention to build one for the Mac.  Apple has
>>  offered to buy him out/in to develop the system for the Mac only.  They
>>  offered a cool million plus.  He said no.  Yippee!  [...]
>
>Is this guy rich?  How'd he get the resources to develop and produce these
>boards?  AND he refuses $1,000,000.00+ ? (I know it's Apple, but that is
>still a lot of $$CASH$$.  If he refused that offer, he's got something!)

Come on, use a little math.  The original article said he sold 500 units to
date at about $6,000.  Lets say half included the 4 processor boards at $7,000.
Then his income has been $4.75 million.  A startup venture on low volume
products needs a 400 % markup over cost to stay alive, so 80 % of that is
income of $3.8 million already earned.  Hell, Apple's $1 million is a petty
cash offer.  Not knowing his expences to date, or his incremental cost, I can
only guess, but I would say the company has already cleared $1 million profit.

Thank goodness he is business minded.  I can imagine selling out to Apple and
us hearing more junk about Apples multi-media superiority because of this
product.  Apple doesn't come close to the Amiga today, lets hope it never does.
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