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From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac owners guilt at Mac high prices (Why, Apple? Why?)
Message-ID: <2353.26987f28@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 9 Jul 90 12:57:12 GMT
References: <77516@aerospace.AERO.ORG> <1990Jul8.052331.101@d.cs.okstate.edu>
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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In article <1990Jul8.052331.101@d.cs.okstate.edu>, minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
> Me:
> |>  I personally think it is in Apple's best interests to come as close to
> |>giving away Macs as is possible to increase the installed base. In the
> |>long run, this would be very beneficial.

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> for PCs, lots and lots of Macs will be sold. Ever hear "God, I'd love
> one but I just can't afford that." I hear it way too often, and **I**
> feel guilty. If only I could say "Not anymore! Check this out... you get

Robert, you have hit the nail on the head.
Every Mac user/owner since Adam has the same feeling: GUILT because s/he 
decided that the extra expense was worth it, in other words that s/he is 
better off than s/his freind who says they'd love one but can't afford one.

How many of us have sold our old macs at bargain basement prices to 
freinds/relatives (i.e. less than normal 2nd hand) to encourage them to 
join the fraternity?

(i.e. I am considering selling my SE for 70% of the price it would sell for 
via the papers, to a brother-in-law who's decided he should get a computer, 
and thinks that Windows + cheap clone is the same as a mac)

How many of us would LIKE to *give* a mac to the nearest 'Macs are toys' 
MS-DOS user to convert them?

WE all know that the Mac is better. We all know that you get more in a Mac 
box than in a PC box BUT WE STILL WANT A CHEAP MAC THAT EVERYONE COULD 
AFFORD *WITHOUT* HAVING TO MAKE EXCUSES FOR APPLE. ('R&D' being the 
favorite)
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Phil Ryan                                         
ANU Department of Physics and Theoretical Physics 
Canberra, Australia                               
pfr654@csc.anu.oz.au   phone:(61 6) 249 4678   fax:(61 6) 249 0741