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From: sysmgr@KING.ENG.UMD.EDU (Doug Mohney)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 6 Nov 90 14:02:56 GMT
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>(Larry Rosenstein) answers:
>>And Apple had orders for 125,000 of the new low-cost Macs.
>
>Good for Apple!  Good thing NeXTs and low-cost Macs are not in the same 
>market. 15,000 orders for a workstation-class machine in two months DOES
>represent the start of momentum.  125,000 orders for a $1000 PC may or may
>not represent a success story.

I think it also representes some of the cluelessness of Apple. At the
announcement of the Mac Classic, Apple management was gushing over how they'd
sold more MacClassics than any other Mac in the history of the product line.

If Apple had dropped the prices on their product line one to two years ago,
lord knows what might have happened....