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- From: joeles@cup.portal.com (Joel Edward Swan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Commodore's Second Quarter Results
- Message-ID: <69590@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 20:37:47 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu>
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- >In article <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu> barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- >
- >writes:
- >> Strange that this comes only a couple of weeks after Apple announced that
- >> it had broken IBM's record in the personal computer industry by shipping
- >> 2 million systems in one year. Why is Commodore getting hit by almost 25%
- >> reductions in sales, while Apple Computer is reporting record sales?
- >
- >If Commodore is doing and Apple (and IBM) are doing so good, then why is it
- >that CNN has had segments on layoffs at IBM and Apple, but none about layoffs
- >from Commodore?
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- Because CBM is not news. IBM and Apple is. They can't talk about every
- little company across the country.
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- >Brian
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- -Joel
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