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From: bcase@cup.portal.com (Brian bcase Case)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: New Macs
Message-ID: <13953@cup.portal.com>
Date: 25 Jan 89 20:56:34 GMT
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>I think Apple has shot itself in the foot.

>I bet that Apple won't ever announce an SE/030 upgrade, or if they do,
>then they won't sell many.  We know the MacII has Nubus, well the SE
>has NoBus!  And now the SE/030 has NoBus2!  And NoBus != NoBus2!!!

>Apple has made the same mistake as IBM!  And the blunder comes right
>after they watched IBM falter!

You forget the corporate market.  They buy new machines, not upgrades.  
The SE/30 is going to sell like hot cakes for the same reason that the
Plus took off like wild fire:  It is in an incremental upgrade to a
configuration that makes sense (small size, just the right amount of
expandability (can I get color? Yes? I'll take it), fast processor). 

Let's face it, the money is in corporate sales and Apple is serving
that market.