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From: treeves@magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Terry N Reeves)
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Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
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Date: 29 Nov 90 18:57:37 GMT
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you cannot answer all question about why company a did b by saying they did it
to make money. It's true, of course. It's also stupid.  It's like answering 
"why did the chicken cross the road" with "to get to the other side"

it is possible to get more detailed answers and it is possible to derive benfit
from those answers

We cannot say "x million people bought the classic, therefore apple was right
not to use a 16mz 68000" We have to ask "would x+y million have bought it if
they had gone 16mz?" You can bet apple asked. They need to hear from those "y"
people if they were wrong about how big "y" is.

The issues raised here need to be voiced and people from apple DO read this.
they need our feed back if they are going to decide how to sell us more macs.
We want them to make a prodect we will buy so we win too!
Ranting on about how all apples decisions are made to increase profits 
doesn't tell US anything we don't know and doesn't tell THEM anything they
don't know.

for example - here at Academic computing at OSU we probably would have bought
a ton of LCs if it had a 68030 - even with the needed price increase.

very likely we will buy ms-dos machines instead. Why ? - we want big screens
(for word processing-color is only a minor factor), and something close to 
current technology, at a reasonable cost. 

I love macs. Amazingly, OSU will not spend huge amounts of money on them for
that reason alone.


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