Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!agate!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!fadden From: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Andy McFadden) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: More about Apple Inc. Message-ID: <28881@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 17 Oct 90 04:57:16 GMT References: <12630076332007@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> <14161@smoke.BRL.MIL> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU Lines: 29 In article jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes: >Agreed. Sculley is attempting to sell Macintoshes like he sold Pepsi and >Potato Chips while he worked at PespsiCo (read Sculley's book, Interesting how a former Pepsi exec is now selling the "Mac Classic". >This all but reminds me of American car companies during the 70's, where That's a really nice analogy. The market just eludes Apple. It's time to give Scully the boot, like Jobs before him. >Apple will learn that short-term marketing will kill them. Or they will >get killed. Y'all remember my prediction last month that the //e would be gone within six months? Anybody care to guess at the life expectancy of Apple? They're in a heap of trouble... if these things don't sell very well, Apple is in for a long-term slump. Supposedly Apple has sold 100,000 units since just yesterday. While that's a very impressive figure, I would imagine that most of those are from people who decided to wait for the last two months or so to buy. >|Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | -- fadden@cory.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden) ..!ucbvax!cory!fadden fadden@avalanche.berkeley.edu (when cory throws up)