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- Carl M. Holmberg (cmholm@va24669.hac.com) wrote:
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- : My interpretation of the relationship between Apple and it's licencees
- : would be like that between Sun and the SPARC cloners (ie. the 3rd parties
- : are dependent on the leads for certain critical components). Are you
- : thinking that Apple is intentionally limiting supplies to Power, Radius,
- : and Daystar, et al?
-
- Okay - if I remember right, Appple's having trouble getting
- chips too, which kinda messes them up too... let alone the cloners.
- My opinion is that the Apple market is not going to be open to
- cloners if they can't get a decent amount of product out - and,
- thanks to the ASIC shortages, they can't.
-
- : I think the truth of the matter is that Apple screwed up it's projections,
- : resulting in ASIC shortages, resulting in Apple, it's licencees, and it's
- : potential licencees not being able to put out the iron. Whether they
- : *would* limit supplies given adequate stocks is another matter.
-
- That would be... although Apple has enough other problems (eg layoffs)
-
- - Chad
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