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From: joe@amos.ucsd.edu.ling.ucsd.edu (Joe)
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Subject: Re: Mac Kits/clones?!?!!?
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Date: 19 Mar 90 15:26:09 GMT
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In article <BC?#&S+@rpi.edu> ira@iear.arts.rpi.edu (Ira Lee) writes:
>I really hope that there won't be any successful mac clones out there
>publicly.  Apple computer should be the only one making macs. Once other
>companies other than Apple start making roms, then I suspect trouble
>with the integrity of Macintosh software.....
>
>anyone else agree?

I specifically disagree. The reason Apple's prices are so high is not
because their manufacturing costs are high; it is because they have no
competition. 

Frankly, if competiting mac-clone manufacturers could not or did not
design fully-compatible, high-quality hardware, I don't think anyone
would buy their products. Or even if they did, I sure wouldn't.

Don't forget that competition also leads to _improvements_ in quality
as each manufacturer attempts to beat out the other and sqeeze more
product into a tighter case. For less $$.

Look at the IBM clone market. You don't find incompatibles there.
That's why they call them "compatible." 

On the side, I seriously hope Apple _loses_ its current lawsuit with
Microsoft. Apple has become very arrogant lately, and their prices are
begining to soar out of the "personal" market.

All because they have no competition.
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