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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Commodore's Second Quarter Results
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <1992Nov6.160131.27783@cs.sandia.gov> <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu> <xIk+r*dk1@caleb.UUCP>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 1992 04:38:26 GMT
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- In article <xIk+r*dk1@caleb.UUCP> jdp@caleb.UUCP (Jim Pritchett) writes:
- >In article <BxBI8q.HL8@news.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?
- >
- >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.
- >
- >Most of Apple's sales are in the US. Get the picture yet, Marc?
-
- In other words, Commodore's total abandonment of the U.S. market is
- coming back to haunt them, as the U.S. economy is now showing the strongest
- growth of the industrialized nations. Since Commodore has abdanoned the
- U.S., they cannot benefit from this U.S. economic growth, and are stuck
- until Europe emerges from its recession. Yes, I get the picture.
-
- >UUCP: rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
- > or utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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