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From: merchant@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Peter Merchant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple Gets Greedier (Read it and Weep!)
Keywords: Apple, Mac, Prices, Rip-off
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Date: 14 Sep 88 13:59:20 GMT
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In article <1018@lakesys.UUCP> macak@lakesys.UUCP (Jim Macak) writes:
>Seems to me Apple is getting yet more greedy in its old age.
>[...] Some increases are indeed in products that
>contain DRAM.  Other increases are in products _without any DRAM_.  Boesenberg
>attempts to lay the blame on the DRAM market, even though DRAM prices have
>already peaked and have indeed fallen lately.

Well, first, in Apple's side, they are a company that's out for profit.  I
don't think there's anything specifically wrong with that.  I'll admit,
though, that it'll be a bit harder to justify $8000 for a Macintosh 4/40
around here.

As for the increases in prices on products that do not contain DRAM chips,
possibly Apple figures that it is wiser to increase prices on all their
products by 20%, rather than increase prices on half of their products by
40%.  (The numbers I used I just pulled out of my head.  They are not
intended to be the real percentage increases.)

I will agree, though, that DRAM prices have been falling.  We'll see if the
prices return to "normal" within the next few months or not.  Intriguingly
enough, IBM, in a very quiet moved, increased prices on most of their hardware
by an average of 17%.  Maybe Apple is trying to become more like IBM.  :^)
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"It's gonna be over                     Peter Merchant (merchant@eleazar.UUCP)
 Before you know it's begun."                 (Peter.G.Merchant@dartmouth.edu)