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From: stephen@oahu.cs.ucla.edu (Steve Whitney)
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Subject: Re: New Apple Mac rumored...
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Date: 16 Oct 90 19:18:11 GMT
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In article <1990Oct16.135207.19939@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> cmm1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Christopher M Mauritz) writes:

>How can Atari compete with this?  Sculley stated yesterday that Apple is
>willing to take a margin hit now to build up market share for the future
>(something Atari hasn't been able to do even with lower prices).
>

Perhaps if they advertized so that people knew the computer existed...
I was telling the computer science class that I TA about a program I
wrote for the ST today.  No one chuckled, but I didn't see any looks
of recognition when I mentioned the computer's name.

Atari might have a chance _right now_ (no later) at breaking into
the educational market here at UCLA.  Thee are a lot of people using
yucky IBMs to do their coursework and word processing.  Also, UCLA doesn't
have the thousands of public access Macs that Stanford had.  Poeple
don't have to get a Mac so that they can print their stuff for free here.
No one's going to pay retail when they can get almost any otehr machine
(including IBM, Mac, Amiga) for a discount.  Even if the price were
competetive, they would perceive the discounted machines as a better value.

Atari claims to have some nifty stuff for Comdex (_busines_ show).  We'll know
in about a month, I guess.

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