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From: jonathan@eleazar.dartmouth.edu (Jonathan Altman)
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Subject: Re: 1Mb SIMMs available
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Date: 11 May 89 01:43:13 GMT
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In article <24263@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> steve@violet.berkeley.edu (Steve Goldfield) writes:
>In article <2782@cadre.dsl.PITTSBURGH.EDU> geb@cadre.dsl.pittsburgh.edu (Gordon E. Banks) writes:
>#>Memory prices finally seem to be in free-fall.  This MacWeek (May 9) has
>#>ads for $149 1Mb high-profile & $159 low profileSimms.  At Comdex people 
>#>were saying that by the end of the year it will be down to $25/Mb when the 
>#>4MB simms get plentiful.
>
>Ah, and will Apple drop its prices any time soon, too? Or will
>it continue to make its customers pay for its disastrous business
>judgment [see Wall Street Journal, 1/30/89, "Apple Slips as
>Result of Hoarding Chips: Costly Purchases May Cut Quarter's
>
>Steve Goldfield

And will netters remember that way back last fall, when memory chips
were more valuable than faberge eggs (maybe not that valuable, but),
they spent many megabytes of transmissions berating Apple for not
building up their DRAM-chip making capacity?  So, Apple does in fact
have no business sense: they listened to you posters and went and
found the memory you'd buy at any price.  Now you're bitching
because the supply of chips, which Apple emphatically DOES NOT
control, has gone way up, dropping the price.  Is Apple happy, stuck
with the expensive memory?  No.  But, they attempted to make their
customers satisfied by finding memory for them.  Is that bad
business?  Well, kind of, but only because they fell for the biggest
business problem in the book, the effects of the delay function.
Attempting to accomodate large spikes in any kind of function, such
as the supply function, inevitably results in a wild swing in that
function, leaving many with gluts of higher priced goods.

This may sound as if I'm angry with the posting asking this.  I'm
not, I'm laughing my head off.  I predicted this bitching almost 10
months ago.  The only thing I can say is, you wanted your memory
NOW, you got it NOW.

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