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From: steets@christa.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Michael Steets)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Not another NeXT defector???!!!
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Date: 7 Nov 90 10:16:48 GMT
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In article <9530@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>, wilkins@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
(Mark Wilkins) writes:

|> (stuff deleted)
|> 
|>   15,000 * 6 = 90,000 machines per year.  Macintosh, in its FIRST year, sold
|> 500,000, and it was NOT an overwhelmingly popular machine.  It was seen as
|> ^^^^^^^^^^^
|>


Where did you get this number? 500,00 was the number Steve Jobs WANTED to sell,
but obviously it was totally unrealistic. 
I don't remember numbers from 'The Journey is the Reward', but in his first 
year the mac seemed not to be the great success. Real sells were about 
20 Percent (+/- 10 Percent) of 500,000

(Corrections are welcome, I read the book one year ago...)  
 
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