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- From: jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu (Joel Siegel)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,misc.invest
- Subject: Re: History was made today...
- Date: 23 Dec 1992 10:02:16 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- In article <1992Dec17.170232.14346@netnews.louisville.edu> harpe@netnews.louisville.edu (Mike Harpe) writes:
- >I normally don't respond to these kinds of postings, but I was sufficiently
- >moved by the news that I do have to make some comments. Note at the start,
- >I am a true Mac believer. I have about $5K set aside to buy my dream Mac
- >in the next few months.....
-
- > [deletions....]
-
- >IBM has always been able
- >to assume control of a situation by forcing upgrades on customers. They had
- >built their entire sales strategy around planned obsolescence coupled with
- >being the only source for replacements.
-
- That sounds a lot like what Apple is doing... right...now.
- Crippling machines to meet a price point (IIvx, etc.), short-lived
- machines (LC -> LCII -> LCn), and so on. Perhaps Apple should
- learn from IBM's example, and not learn *by* IBM's example.
-
-
- --
- Joel Siegel <jdsiegel@garnet.berkeley.edu jdsiegel@ocf.berkeley.edu>
- "Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in
- affairs which properly concern them." - Paul Valery
-