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From: mcdonald@sfu_cmpt.cs.sfu
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Subject: Re: More Mac prices
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Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 13:06:00 EST
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 13:06:00 1987
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Nf-From: sfu_cmpt.cs.sfu!mcdonald    Oct 21 10:06:00 1987


Yes, Mac prices are way out of line.  Simon Fraser University IS a member
of the Apple Consortium, and without that fact there is no way I could
have afforded to buy my Mac.  I wouldn't have given it a second thought,
at the regular prices.  This is very unfortunate, because it is a wonderful
machine which could blow away any competition, if Apple priced it more
reasonably.  

Unfortunately, Apple seems to be ignoring long term gains (i.e. domination
of the micro market) for higher profits in the short term.  This is silly,
as if you hit IBM over the head three or four thousand times with a blunt,
heavy object, they will wake up to the fact that something is amiss, and
respond to it in their typical clumsy, lumbering fashion--which they have
started to do already.  Apple still has an opportunity to corner the market,
but not for much longer.  Who knows, five years from now i might (shudder)
end up buying an IBM system.

Ken McDonald
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