Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!munnari.oz.au!csc!pfr654
From: pfr654@csc.anu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Death by Windows
Message-ID: <2354.269881d3@csc.anu.oz>
Date: 9 Jul 90 13:08:35 GMT
Organization: Computer Services, Australian National University
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Lots of posters to this and other Mac newsgroups are Mac evangelists 
(including me).

I think that unless Apple does something drastic, that the Mac will die 
(death by Windows). Mac sales are probably going through the floor right 
this minute!

People with limited $$ (isn't everyone in this boat, from home users to 
corporations) will be buying a 'nice' interface for less money if they get 
a PC. These people are NEW COMPUTER USERS and don't know/understand or care 
about the finer details of lots of the discussion going on about win 3 vs 
Mac.

Apple's advertising is good, but it has to be followed up by cheap macs.

Suggestion: a cheap modular Mac, able to do colour, based on 68000 or 
68020: to compete head-on with clone makers.
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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