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From: gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hardware,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: A Classic Dead End?
Keywords: Classic,System 7.0
Message-ID: <1991May20.204508.9456@milton.u.washington.edu>
Date: 20 May 91 20:45:08 GMT
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In article <1991May20.183007.15582@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
>In article <1991May20.164257.1959@milton.u.washington.edu> gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Just another theatre geek.....) writes:
>>In article <1991May20.154508.4325@midway.uchicago.edu> jcav@quads.uchicago.edu (john  cavallino) writes:
>>	The market aint gonna move anywhere until it wants to.  The reason
>>why Apple is making the Classic is that the market wants that particular
>>product.  No amount of prodding by Apple is going to force the market
>>where it doesn't want to go.
>>	Otherwise, the lowball winner would have been the LC and not
>>the Classic.
>
>The Classic sells because it is >cheap<, not because it is more powerful
>or "better" than the LC.

	Bingo!  You got the idea!

	And THAT's what the market wants!

	If it didn't, it'd pass up the classic, even at it's cheap price and opt for the
power of the LC.


>>>I'm sorry, but I still think my arguments contain one or two shreds of
>>>reasonability.  :-)
>>	The market doesn't agree with you.
>See above.
	
	Like, I said:  The market doesn't agree.



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