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- From: jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Commodore's Second Quarter Results
- Message-ID: <xIk+r*dk1@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: 15 Nov 92 05:22:09 GMT
- References: <1992Nov6.160131.27783@cs.sandia.gov> <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu>
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- In article <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu>, Marc N. Barrett writes:
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- > 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?
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- The answer is obvious to anyone but MB. Most of CBM's sales come from Europe.
- There is a REAL recession going on there, not just a slow growing economy that
- the media and Slick Willie have conned the public into believing is a depression!
- Also, the dollar has been falling. This hurts dollar denominated results.
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- Most of Apple's sales are in the US. Get the picture yet, Marc?
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- Jim Pritchett
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