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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 1991 04:25:38 GMT

In article <1991Jun9.183551.3565@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>
>  Huh?  From Apple's Second Quarter report:
>
>(in thousands)
>                   Three months Ended             Six Months Ended
>              Mar 29, 1991  Mar 30, 1990     Mar 29, 1991  Mar 30, 1990
>Net Sales      1,597,678     1,346,202        3,273,184     2,839,585
>
>  Looks like sales are up to me.
>
	I note you left out the earnings line. 8-) Earnings were
down despite increased sales, so this is definitely a mixed bag
for Apple. It will help keep them going in the long run by having
a larger user base, but lower profits will cut into marketing and
R&D.

>[Side note:  The Research and Development figures are interesting]
>
>R&D              146,450       115,235          286,515       221,546
>
>  Looks like Apple might get close to $600 million on R&D this year.
>
	That's up 27% for this quarter and 29% for the year. That
is very impressive, although it is likely that they will feel the
pinch from lower earnings, and 10% fewer employees.
	Commodore's R&D is up 5% this quarter and 8% the last
three quarters. That keeps up slightly with inflation. However,
Commodore spent 5.5% of what Apple did this quarter and 8.3% of
what Apple spent the last two quarters over the last three
quarters. (assuming those Apple numbers are in 1,000s.)

	-- Ethan

Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
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