Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!microsoft!brianw From: brianw@microsoft.UUCP (Brian Willoughby) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Lasers cost cutting secret. Summary: No new Apple II products????????!!!!!!!! Message-ID: <796@microsoft.UUCP> Date: 3 Mar 89 03:35:35 GMT References: <8902281447.aa18108@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: Microsoft Corp., Redmond WA Lines: 30 In article <8902281447.aa18108@SMOKE.BRL.MIL>, SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: > >>How is it that Laser can make a profit selling "basic computing" at prices > >>Apple seems unwilling to compete with? > >I suppose that letting another company sink millions into research and then > >"borrowing" the ideas that work out best could cut down on some overhead. > NO, NO, NO!!! That's the sort of faulty economic logic that has abdicated > so many products and markets to Asians who understand that the idea is to > have MORE MONEY COMING IN THAN IS GOING OUT! > > R&D costs are SUNK (gone, kaput, spent years ago!). Development is ALREADY > PAID FOR (whether or not in retrospect it was a good idea). Besides, the > Apple 2 line already has profited Apple enough to make Midas jealous. > Wait a minute... you mean that you want Apple to cease all current R&D on products for the next ten years? I mean, who is going to develope the IIGS+ or the Apple IInxt? Are you going to leave all R&D to Laser? Sure Apple has finished R&D on the Apple II Plus, but they aren't nearly finished with the IIGS! Laser is just waiting in line to copy the NEXT Apple product. They still are preparing to "borrow" yet again. I am glad Apple is continuing to look into the kinds of products which aren't in development by any other company right now. It costs money to research ideas that no one else is even thinking of. I certainly hope you don't think that Apple's first 16-bit Apple II is the last!! Brian Willoughby microsoft!brianw@uunet.UU.NET or just microsoft!brianw > Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90]