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From: ngg@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM (Norman Goodger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Loss of Mac's 20%... the Mac's
Message-ID: <2719@bridge2.ESD.3Com.COM>
Date: 10 Jul 90 22:55:42 GMT
References: <52331@<1990Jul8> <70400019@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
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In article <70400019@m.cs.uiuc.edu> gillies@m.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
>
>Fourth, it is apparent that personal users are still being milked to
>fuel Apple's push into the business market (i.e. some large fraction
>of every SE purchase is probably spent on postscript printer support,
>appletalk / appleshare upkeep, IIfx design, developer support for
>high-end Color Retouch & CAD programs, etc. etc. etc.)
>Don't kid yourself that high macintosh hardware revenues is being
>spent on "The Rest of Us" as Apple used to say.  It's being spent on
>"The Rich of Us", e.g. business users.
>Don W. Gillies, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Illinois

This above is a just about a good an arguement that was being rebutted.
ie its BS, every company, even the one you are working for is in 
business to make a profit, if they weren't, you would not have a job.

Saying that the personal user is taking it in the wallet because of
the business market is a crock, personal purchases of Apple Computers
should not be paying any more than anyone else. It would be like saying
that anyone who got a educational or developer discount got cheated 
because they didn't get it thru the business discount, which in most
cases is not that much better if anything at all then the discount 
given most knowledgeable buyers would get in the first place.

Give it a rest, most all I ever see you do is Apple bash, and it hasn't
changed much of anything that I can see. And most of your analogies carry
no weight as they make little or no sense.

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3Com Corp.				Co-SysOp FreeSoft RT - GEnie.
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