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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: <69891@cup.portal.com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 22:14:13 PST
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
- References: <1992Nov6.160131.27783@cs.sandia.gov>
- <BxBI8q.HL8@news.iastate.edu> <xIk+r*dk1@caleb.UUCP>
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- >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 depressi
- o
- >n!
- >Also, the dollar has been falling. This hurts dollar denominated results.
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- "Dollar denominated results?" I'm not quite sure what you are meaning by
- this, but the falling dollar helps CBM. It does so by making the european
- purchased commodore products "worth" more than if the US$ was high.
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- >Most of Apple's sales are in the US. Get the picture yet, Marc?
- >
- > Jim Pritchett
- >
- >
- >UUCP: rwsys.lonestar.org!caleb!jdp
- > or utacfd.uta.edu!rwsys!caleb!jdp
- >
-
- -Joel
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