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From: ali@navajo.STANFORD.EDU (Ali Ozer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Educational discounts
Message-ID: <1199@navajo.STANFORD.EDU>
Date: Thu, 11-Dec-86 18:06:10 EST
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Posted: Thu Dec 11 18:06:10 1986
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In article <662@ssc-bee.UUCP> eve@ssc-bee.UUCP (Michael Eve) writes:
>Although the Apple educational discounts may have put a large number of
>Apples into students' hands, I'm not convinced it did Apple any good in
>the larger market.  In fact, it raised considerable ire among the general
>computing population.  It seemed like almost everyone (students, developers,
>teachers, etc) could get a fantastic deal on the Mac while John Q. Public
>could walk into his neighborhood computer store and get fantastically
>screwed.
>Let's just have one pricing policy for everyone.  No more privileged groups.

I agree. In fact, the Amiga's current price is so good that if it was to
be sold in the campus bookstore WITHOUT any further discounts it still would
look real good beside the Macs and the IBMs WITH discounts. I just wish
Commodore would try to make deals with the schools such that we start seeing
Amigas in the bookstores and labs! I guess when I said "educational discounts"
I really did not mean discounts for students but special arrangements that
would make the Amiga as desirable to the universities as the Mac and the IBM.
As it is, an average student goes to the bookstore to check out the computers,
and is presented with 3 different Macs and 3 different IBMs, and makes his/her
choice between those machines, without even going off campus to see the other
alternatives. After all, the bookstore is giving a discount, right, so 
there won't be anything better/more cost effective available outside!

Ali Ozer, ali@navajo.stanford.edu