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From: dave@PRC.Unisys.COM (David Lee Matuszek)
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Subject: Re: Jean-Louis Gasee on the outs?
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Date: 21 Feb 90 17:53:59 GMT
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In article <947@mtk.UUCP> marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes:

>Can we expect this new direction to be in pricing? Dare we think, could there
>be, reasonable, (translated, much lower) prices?  Would Apple actually stoop
>to selling machines that have the hardware firepower (which is often the only
>thing people compare) similar to 286/386/486 clones at competive prices?
>Would they finally realize that an easy to use machine is worth 20%
>more, not 60% more than a clone?

Chacun a son gout.

Sure, we all wish Apple's prices would come down.  The six of us in my
family share a single Mac+.  It looks like it'll be a few years yet
before we can move to a MacII, because of price.

However, I wouldn't have an IBM or clone in the house if you gave me
one.  (But if you want to give me one, fine, I'll find someone to sell
it to...)  Why?  Because everyone in the house, from my 8-year-old
daughter on up, uses the Mac--for homework, for games, for typing
notes to leave for people, and (especially) for artistic fiddling.
They think computers are easy; and they have this strange notion that
computers are to use (the rest of us know that they are really to
configure :-).  If I had an IBM, no one would bother to learn how to
use it.  Including myself.

So your 20% is a bit off, for some of us.  I don't like Apple's prices
either, but they have what I want, and the PC clones don't.
-- Dave Matuszek (dave@prc.unisys.com)
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