Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!qucis!akerman
From: akerman@qucis.queensu.CA (Richard Akerman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Newsweek Apple Article
Summary: Newsweek looks at new Macs, no mention of Amiga
Keywords: Newsweek, Mac, new Macs, Classic, LC, IIsi
Message-ID: <965@qucis.queensu.CA>
Date: 17 Oct 90 21:47:45 GMT
Organization: Physics Department, Queens University, Kingston, Ontario, Can.
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Just got the October 22, 1990 Newsweek.  On p. 53:

Apple's Third Revolution:
Can new low-cost machines reverse its slide?

Quotes:

"...traditionally pricy Apple..." --Newsweek (John Schwartz)
"It's a revolution of a different sort, a marketing revolution." --Jim Weil 
 (market analyst)
"...a more agressive Apple." --Michael Spindler (Apple COO)
"For the last few years Apple preferred evolution to revolution... As Apple 
stalled, competitors were catching up... Software giant Microsoft...Windows 3
... At NeXT...Jobs...is creating what many thought the next Mac ought to be: a
user-friendly machine designed to run the increasingly popular UNIX operating
system.  Companies like Sun have also made UNIX easier to use.  Meanwhile, 
upgrades for Apple's own software [read OS] have been delayed repeatedly.  
Worse, Apple has alienated software developers."  --Newsweek
"Apple's price-slashing strategy was born of necessity."  --Newsweek
"Apple's window [of opportunity], so to speak, is closing fast."  --Newsweek

A fairly balanced analysis which says they may succeed and they may not.  No 
mention of Amiga (or, of course, the ST) as a competitor.

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