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From: jon@chopin.udel.edu (Jon Deutsch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Ongoing debates....
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Date: 5 Dec 90 17:19:22 GMT
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In article <9465@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c60a-gy@danube.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Ben (Benno) Carroll) writes:
>NeXT...I have to wonder whether Steve Jobs et al can afford to keep that
>deal going for any period of time...I think it's a great way to finally
>install the much-needed user base, but if I were a NeXT owner, I would be
>thinking about the possibility that Jobs' creditors may get tired of 
>watching him take a loss, and force him to either raise the prices back
>to or above their previous stellar prices, or go bankrupt.  I would hate
>to see 25,000 orphaned NeXT owners...:(


At a NeXT demonstration on campus, one of the attendants asked that very
question to the sales rep.  The sales rep said that NeXT is indeed making
a profit on the NeXT workstation even at the ed. discount prices and that
they have no intention of raising the price of any machine, ever.

						
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