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From: drd@siia.mv.com (David Dick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Loss of Mac's 20% over Windows 3.0 : The TRUTH
Message-ID: <1990Jul10.184527.4259@siia.mv.com>
Date: 10 Jul 90 18:45:27 GMT
References: <1990Jul3.113921.1299@d.cs.okstate.edu> <77516@aerospace.AERO.ORG>
Organization: Software Innovations, Inc.
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In <77516@aerospace.AERO.ORG> doner@aerospace.aero.org (John Doner) writes:

>In article <1990Jul3.113921.1299@d.cs.okstate.edu> minich@d.cs.okstate.edu (Robert Minich) writes:
>>  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.

>Do that, and they won't be around for the long run, or if they are, we won't
>care.  The money for all that R & D, developing and improving user interfaces,
>innovative software like Hypercard, etc., let alone the hardware, has to come
>from somewhere.  The only way Apple could sell computers at PC-clone prices
>would be to give up its future; they could lay off the research staff, and
>start pumping out lots of cheap variations on the SE.  This would expand
>market share for a while.  Then what?

Japanese companies seem to have been doing just fine concentrating on 
market share instead of taking the immediate profits.  Do they
"give up [their] future" when they do this?  I don't think so.

David Dick
Software Innovations, Inc. [the Software Moving Company (sm)]