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From: doug@armada.UUCP (Doug Hoffman)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Screwing Little Guys
Summary: How are the Little Guys hurt?
Message-ID: <96@armada.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 18:28:07 GMT
References: <79700022@p.cs.uiuc.edu>
Organization: MassPar Inc., Santa Clara, CA
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In article <79700022@p.cs.uiuc.edu>, gillies@p.cs.uiuc.edu writes:
> 
> People get screwed all the time (I'm thinking about Apple customers)
> when a company introduces a new model at a random time of the year.
> Often, customer have bought machines the day before the new model came
> out, with no inkling that a new model would REALLY appear.  Apple has
> introduced two such machines in the last two months!!!
> 
> Don Gillies


I don't understand this.  How is this screwing anybody?  If they paid
a fair price for the product capibilities, then how is it they have
lost anything?

If you want to have the absolute biggest bang for the buck, look in
the trade rags for the vaporware and "newest" hardware (delivery more
than a year out).  Feel free to wait until you can actually buy the
best that anyone can advertise.  You'll wait forever.  When you buy,
you should be buying with the knowledge that someday (soon) better,
less expensive equipment will be available.  You should be buying
the best you can get today to solve your problem.

I certainly don't want to see anyone hold products off the market until
a particular day of year so that all vendors can introduce at once.
That's plain silly (IMHO).

Doug Hoffman