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From: sbb@esquire.UUCP (Stephen B. Baumgarten)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: The Death of Apple Computer (Was: Apple Gets Greedier)
Message-ID: <640@esquire.UUCP>
Date: 16 Sep 88 15:07:44 GMT
References: <70@bridge2.3Com.Com> <and> <others> <1356@sunny3.che.clarkson.edu> <1417@garth.UUCP>
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In article <1417@garth.UUCP> fenwick@garth.UUCP (Stephen Fenwick) writes:
>Underestimating market demand is bad, and Apple should have known better.
>However, it is usually better to slightly underestimate demand (a healthy
>backlog looks very good to stockholders and Wall Street) than to overestimate
>and produce machines that must be dumped, or to idle production lines
>(a la many automobile makers).

And IBM, which is quickly becoming the K-Mart of personal computer
manufacturers (``Attention shoppers:  for the next 20 minutes our dealers
will be *paying you* to take PS/2 Model 60s and 80s off their hands...'').

:-)

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