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From: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.amiga,comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Boycott Apple Again
Message-ID: <358@island.uu.net>
Date: 13 Sep 88 15:25:27 GMT
Reply-To: daniel@island.uu.net (Dan Smith)
Organization: Island Graphics, Marin County, California
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Summary:


	A while back, when Apple decided to sue Microsoft and HP, I made
a posting with the subject "Boycott Apple". Now they've done something
that's very likely to upset a lot of people again...

	They raised prices...not just a little bit, but substantially:

			old	new	change
	Mac II		3769	4869	29.1%
	Mac SE		2769	3169	14.4%
	Mac Plus	1799	1799	-
	IIgs		999	1149	15.0%
	IIgs mem exp	129	229	77.5%

	I thought this was an industry where prices kept going down, and
features kept going up. On top of that, Apple is supposed to release
a new Mac on Monday. How much is *that* going to be?

	In between IBM's bumbling of just about everything in sight (it's
going to be an MCA future, but wait! here's a new AT!), Apple's greed,
Atari's sort-of-ok acceptance, and Commodore shooting themselves in the
foot, the calf, the knee, etc, with mismarketing the Amiga, I just
don't know...I think I'll save up for a Sun ;-)

				dan

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