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From: yost@esquire.UUCP (David A. Yost)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.next
Subject: comparing NeXT vs Mac on slow sales rampup
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Date: 7 Apr 90 02:11:52 GMT
Organization: DP&W, New York, NY
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When you mention how slow the NeXT has been to
catch on, often someone will say, yeah, but the
Mac took a while to catch on, too.

I was just cleaning out my files tonight, and I came
across some interesting numbers given to me a while
back by MacWeek's market research department.

Macintoshes shipped:

   1984  259,000
   1985  231,000
   1986  354,000
   1987  526,000

(anyone have 1988 and 1989 figures?)

All rumor I have heard puts NeXT's shipments at
between 10,000 and 15,000 in the first, what has it been,
9 months now?

 --dave yost
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