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From: rnf@shumv1.uucp (Rick Fincher)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: ROM 04 GS
Message-ID: <1990Feb3.174919.11489@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu>
Date: 3 Feb 90 17:49:19 GMT
References: <9992.net.apple@pro-lep>
Reply-To: rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu (Rick Fincher)
Organization: NCSU Computing Center
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In article <9992.net.apple@pro-lep> orcus@pro-lep.cts.com (Brian Greenstone) writes:
>In-Reply-To: message from fadden@cory.Berkeley.EDU
>
>Apple isnt doing sh*t right now, and that's why the IIgs is dead.  If they
>actually went out and promoted their machine like Amiga does, then it is

Where are you people coming up with all this trash that the IIgs is dead?

I just read a market analysis in Macintosh Today that said that Apple has about
34% of the market.  Of that, about half of their unit sales are Apple II's. 
The Apple II sales produce about 25% of their revenues.  These percentages 
have held steady for a few years now.  Sales of the entire Apple product line
are improving steadily.  The Apple II family sales are keeping pace.  I don't
know what Amiga sales are but I would be willing to bet that the IIgs is out-
selling it by a margin of 2 or 3 to 1.

That is not to say Apple can't do better.  I just get sick of hearing people
say the sky is falling.


Rick Fincher
rnf@shumv1.ncsu.edu