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From: gross@umiami.miami.edu (JD144)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: new NeXT (and Apple prices in general)
Message-ID: <6974.26fa3cc3@umiami.miami.edu>
Date: 21 Sep 90 20:16:03 GMT
References: <1990Sep20.214607.1515@midway.uchicago.edu> <39171@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>
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In article <39171@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, lange@lanai.cs.ucla.edu (Trent Lange) writes:
> In article <1990Sep20.214607.1515@midway.uchicago.edu> gft_robert@gsbacd.uchicago.edu writes:
>>-------------------------------
>>
>>[Info about Next releasing extremely nicely priced Next in last-ditch effort]
>>[to save the company]
>>
>>Let's take this to c.s.next.  Macintosh discussions are routinely flamed in the
>>Next group, so I'm not sure we should be reading Next stuff here.
>>
>>Robert
> [Stuff about the really huge price differences and how he'd toss Apple]
> [to get one of these new NeXTs]

To contradict Robert, this discussion is extremely pertinent to this
newsgroup.  We've all been drooling over the nice low prices Apple is
promising us soon, but, again, what have they done at the high end?

If y'all look at MacLeak a couple of weeks back..it shows what the probable
pricing scale will be.  It seems okay up til you reach the IIsi.  At that
point it jumps $3000 for 5 extra MHz of speed and the ability to add
a cache card.  You can't even get the built in mic with it either.  And if
you want the next item on the list...get ready to shell out another $2000.
  
Once again....Apple's biggest pitfall in getting market share (tis a wonder
to be how Pepsi whiz Sculley can't see the need for market share.  Does
he know that all the usual Mac houses have shunted a great deal of resources
to Windows development simply for the chance to get a piece of the huge
market share IBM and PClones have?) will be price.

Please, Apple, yer getting the right idea.  Just keep following that
idea to it's logical conclusion: Lower (and read this as "slash & burn")
the prices of the IIci and IIfx so that going from low-end to high-end
is an arithmetic progression instead of geometric. :)

Just my $.07  (of course my opinions are worth that much! :) )

-- 
Jason Gross     Comp Sci Ugrad     University of Miami     Class of '91 (?)
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