Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Path: utzoo!lsuc!jmm
From: jmm@lsuc.on.ca (John Macdonald)
Subject: Re: The New Macs: Greedy Compromises?
Message-ID: <1990Dec6.015116.3580@lsuc.on.ca>
Organization: Law Society of Upper Canada, Toronto
References: <1142@duteca.UUCP> <1990Dec2.013950.3145@Neon.Stanford.EDU>
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 90 01:51:16 GMT

In article <1990Dec2.013950.3145@Neon.Stanford.EDU> philip@pescadero.stanford.edu writes:
>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).

I don't think your conclusion follows.  With a much heralded
popular addition to the product line, it is not surprising to
have a very high demand for the first few months (I'm sure a
*lot* of people postponed any purchase that they would have
made in the preceding 6 months or more.  Plus, a lot of people
who have refused to buy a Mac earlier because it was out of
their price range.  All of these order in the first few weeks
after the announcement.)  It would be rather foolish of Apple
to build an extra factory so that they could keep up with demand
in the first month of each popular new product (and then not
need it for the next year and a half since their previously
existing factories could handle the demand after the first
month's flood had been covered).