Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!sdd.hp.com!mips!pacbell.com!tandem!zorch!amiga0!mykes From: mykes@amiga0.SF-Bay.ORG (Mike Schwartz) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 9 Jun 91 22:37:46 GMT References: <6678@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Jun4.003619.3661@news.iastate.edu> <25233@well.sf.ca.us> <23@ryptyde.UUCP> <50144@ut-emx.uucp> <11977@hub.ucsb.edu> <42@ryptyde.UUCP> Organization: Amiga makes it possible Lines: 35 In article <42@ryptyde.UUCP> dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy) writes: >You don't know what you're talking about. Macintosh sales are higher than >they've ever been. 60% higher than just last quarter! Furthermore, this was >to be expected. John Sculley made an annoucement at the beginning of the >year that he would now concentrate on gaining market share at the cost >of company profit. The new low-cost Macs are a direct result. Apple is getting >a MUCH lower profit margin for each sold, but it's working. Now that Apple >isn't being so greedy, watch out IBM...:-) Like a previous post has stated: >Stockholders simply don't like this kind of long-range securement. They see >profits drop, and they sell. There are literally thousands of people who watch the market, professionally, recommending which stocks to buy, which to hold, and which to dump. These professionals aren't stupid enough to put Apple on the recommended buy list if the earnings were expected to be so low. In fact, Apple's stock rose $20 higher than it ever has, at least since I started following it in the last 4 years. The earnings report was devastating, and the stock dropped $30 in 3 days ($79 to $49). People seem to think that CBM's marketing strategies are stupid, but unlike most American companies - and like most Japanese companies, their long-term strategies are geared for the "more than 2 years from now" period. Europe is going to a Common Market in 1993, and CBM is going to rule that market. The Common Market is going to be bigger than the US market from day 1. I don't claim to know anything about how many Macs have sold. If I had to guess, I'd say like 8 Million, but from what I've read here (and it hasn't been disputed), it's only 4.5 Million. CBM will sell it's #4 Million before January, and will pass the Mac in worldwide sales in 1992. But this isn't new, the C64 sold more than the Apple II did, too. -- **************************************************** * I want games that look like Shadow of the Beast * * but play like Leisure Suit Larry. * ****************************************************