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From: philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
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Date: 2 Dec 90 01:39:50 GMT
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Just some more fuel for the flames...

The Stanford Bookstore has notices up announcing a 2-month wait for
delivery of Classics (complete with Apple's customer service number
for anyone who wants to complain).

So it seems that Apple has vastly _underestimated_ the demand for a
low-end machine (does this support the argument that Apple has good
business sense? I don't know).

Presumably the si and LC will also do well. Great. But I still wonder
why Apple has not managed to do better at maintaining the conceptual
simplicity of the Mac line. It's all very well to argue that the PC
range is worse, but Apple has had much tighter control over its
software/hardware line than IBM has. Could it be that Apple is trying
to create its own clones?
-- 
Philip Machanick
philip@pescadero.stanford.edu