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From: chuq@Apple.COM (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: MacConnection special: FullWrite for $55
Message-ID: <39104@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 1 Mar 90 19:53:07 GMT
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vita@daredevil.crd.ge.com writes:

>Anyone care to speculate as to why Ashton-Tate is apparently allowing
>some places to unload FWP at such fire-sale prices?  Do this indicate
>that perhaps FWP is perhaps a dead product, and that the long-awaited
>version 2.0 will never see the light of day?  Or maybe that the
>upgrade will come out someday, but be priced at $395 or something?

Actually, I doubt Ashton-Tate's involved. A better guess is that some
distributor or store chain had a bunch of copies gathering dust and decided
to sell them off rather than continue holding them in inventory (since
inventory costs money to hold, eventually it's cheaper to get rid of
something for less than you paid for it than it is to hold on and hope it
sells). MacConnection, with its marketing and distribution, has a pretty
good chance of taking a slow-moving product and getting it out the door for
a cheap price and still make a few bucks on it -- something a regional chain
that overbought couldn't do.

I only think it's an indication that sales of FWP have stagnated and are
probably heading down -- not an indication of anything except Ashtate needs
to get its act together on 2.0 before the product turns into another
Fullpaint -- it exists, it's being ignored and nobody's really buying it.


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