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From: lynch@rocky5.rockefeller.edu.rockefeller.edu (Berkley Lynch)
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Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us?
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Date: 7 Oct 88 22:22:22 GMT
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In article <5455@fluke.COM> mce@tc.fluke.COM (Brian McElhinney) writes:
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>If the long term effects of high prices is a decline of market share, then the
>bean counters will be very unhappy, even if there is still a good profit.  A
>low cost Macintosh would dramatically increase market share.  Apple could
>introduce such a machine, not out of the goodness of their own hearts, but out
>of good old capitalistic greed: to make even more money.
>
>As a software developer I want the Macintosh market place to be as large
>as possible, in order to increase the number of potential buyers.  So I'm
>greedy too.
>
>You're comments on the need for a competitive market place are right on the
>mark.  The introduction of the NeXT machine *may* be the start of a consumer
>graphics computer marketplace.  For various reasons, Amiga and Atari just
>didn't do this.  Steve Jobs might.
>
>
>Brian McElhinney
>mce@tc.fluke.com


Ahem.  I have been following the discussion of the NeXT computer,
and I just want to point out that it is certainly a contradiction
to discuss a "low cost" computer in the same breath as the NeXT 
box: the price discussed on the net is approx. $6000!  It may be
a great machine, but it is NOT going to replace mac plusses or
SEs, and it certainly is not comparable to an Amiga or Atari!
This is the great weakness in this machine.  There is apparently
NO LOW END OPTION! How many of you plan to 
buy one for home use (not including developers)?  NeXT will 
compete with SUN (which should be especially worried) and the 
Mac II, but remember, only a small part of Apple's sales are
of IIs.

         Just an opinion.
         -Berkley Lynch, RU-