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From: mls@mhuxu.UUCP (Michael Siemon)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple price increases
Summary: ah, yes -- the next "announcement"
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Date: 15 Sep 88 19:01:13 GMT
References: <691@ncar.ucar.edu> <3642@Portia.Stanford.EDU> <1501@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>
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In article <1501@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU>, geb@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
> Apple may have a nasty surprise in store next month when the NEXT
> machine is announced.  If sales of NEXT start cutting into Apple's
> you may see the price drop fast.

Let's wait and see what, if anything nExt is going to announce -- and when the
announced availability is, and when the first shipment is, and when there is
software, and ...

I think the iBm/nExt "announcment" was a triumph of PR.
-- 
Michael L. Siemon
contracted to AT&T Bell Laboratories
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