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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Apple, Atari, Amiga, and Bankruptcy
Message-ID: <3217@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 3-Oct-85 18:32:21 EDT
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Posted: Thu Oct  3 18:32:21 1985
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In article <938@vax2.fluke.UUCP> kurt@fluke.UUCP (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>Look at
>(relatively successful) Apple.  Layoffs, declining profits, shakeups in the
>board of directors, faltering sales, slipping schedules.  Apple wont go
>bankrupt this year, but still they are in none too good shape.

Actually, if you look at Apple's financials, they are making an operating
profit. Now that the one time losses attributed to the layoffs and
reorganization are over, it is expected that they'll be solidly profitable.
Cutting out a lot of the duplicated functions in the company (and
dedicating a much higher R&D budget to the long neglected by Jobs Apple II
line) means they'll be able to react to the market faster AND keep the
Apple II from dying out for a longer period of time. Apple seems to be in
pretty good shape from a technical and financial standpoint. They are one
of the few 'home' computer manufacturers that I'd be willing to either work
for or invest in right now.

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:From under the bar at Callahan's:   Chuq Von Rospach 
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