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From: meharp01@ulkyvx.bitnet
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Classic delivery time = 3 months
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.135936.900@ulkyvx.bitnet>
Date: 6 Mar 91 13:59:36 GMT
Organization: University of Louisville
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OK, so i'm whining again......

I was just sitting here marking off the days since I ordered my Classic and
trying to understand WHY it takes 16 weeks to get a computer that is supposed
to be incredibly easy to manufacture.  I mean, that's one of the reasons it's
so cheap, isn't it?  They have even starting air-shipping the systems from
Singapore.  And wasn't there supposed to be a THIRD Classic plant online by
now?

I guess my question is, what kind of colossal screw-up really happened here? 
No one in the trades seems to have a good answer to this other than some
permutation of "demand was much higher than expected."  Good grief, fellas,
doesn't Apple have a marketing research group?  Don't they read Mac[Week,
World, User]?  SOMEONE should have seen this coming.  Were these decisions made 
by Gasse' (sp?) before he got canned?

I have heard a rumor that the fault is not with Apple, but with Conner, the
folks who make the 1" disk drives.  Apple supposedly needed three times the
number that Conner could produce in that time.  Is that the problem or a
symptom of the problem?

9 weeks and counting.....at least I have a nice new hutch for it.....

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