Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ukma!rex!dennison From: dennison@rex.cs.tulane.edu (Theodore Dennison) Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: MACWORLD presents A real Macintosh Clone? Summary: This discussion is impossible Keywords: THE BREAKDOWN OF MODERN ECONOMICS Message-ID: <701@rex.cs.tulane.edu> Date: 1 Apr 89 22:24:03 GMT References: <9979@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu> <2272@buengc.BU.EDU> <2258@ndsuvax.UUCP> <800@oracle.oracle.com> <3493@ficc.uu.net> Reply-To: dennison@rex.UUCP (Theodore Dennison) Distribution: usa Organization: Computer Science Dept., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA Lines: 24 Xref: utzoo comp.arch:9090 comp.sys.amiga:31481 In article limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) writes: >(was originally on comp.arch... thought I'd cross-post this one to >comp.sys.amiga) > > >Nope. Max Toy at the last JAUG meeting (and I've heard this other >places) said (paraphrased) that they should have priced the machine >much higher. (1) People think it's so inexpensive that it can't be >true (2) People are paying a lot more for only a little more power, >they would have been willing to pay a little more for the same thing. >(3) (same drift as #1) People don't take it seriously because it's not >expensive enough. > >Could you imagine if they added $1000 to the price before releasing >it? They could have had a great student discount program, and they >would have had more money to spend on marketing and software support. > >-Tom Wait! Do I hear consumers begging for a HIGHER price on their goods? Wait 'till my Economics professor hears about this. He now owes me about 10 points! T.E.D.