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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: October Issue of Workstation News
Summary: Would you buy a car like this?
Message-ID: <2104@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 12 Oct 90 03:43:19 GMT
References: <8878.apple.net@pro-angmar>
Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <8878.apple.net@pro-angmar>, kgreen@pro-angmar.UUCP (Kevin Green) writes:
> In-Reply-To: message from fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU
> 
> I personally can't answer for Apple, but has anyone else be watching their
> stock lately? I've watched Apple stock on NASDAQ for several years and it is
> really in the dumper, despite the immiment debute of 3 new Macs.

Perhaps it's because of all the "imminent" debuts. Would you buy stock in 
a company that continually sends the message "don't buy our product because
we are about to release a better version for less money" ?  Apple could take
a lesson from the auto and magazine industries. They put a future date on their
products ( i.e. the 1990 cars are out in 1989 and newsweek always seems a week
ahead of the calendar) so that you feel that you are getting something that
is going to be current for awhile. Apple makes you feel like an impulsive idiot
for buying one of their computers instead of waiting "just a little longer".

bob church
bchurch.oucsace.cs.ohiou.edu