Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site spuxll.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxl!houxm!houxz!vax135!floyd!whuxle!spuxll!ech From: ech@spuxll.UUCP (Ned Horvath) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple Subject: Re: Apple dropping Lisa II Message-ID: <486@spuxll.UUCP> Date: Wed, 6-Jun-84 01:11:37 EDT Article-I.D.: spuxll.486 Posted: Wed Jun 6 01:11:37 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 7-Jun-84 07:03:22 EDT References: <922@omsvax.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Information Systems, South Plainfield NJ Lines: 25 The figures quoted don't make a lot of sense; 2000 units per month at a minimum of $5000/unit equates out to $120 Million/year, hardly a "negligible" fraction of $1 Billion. On a different level (and I do NOT claim to be a marketing expert!) it seems to me that a decision to kill the LISA II would be SILLY. At 2000 units a month it is certainly repaying its development cost. Prior to January 24, I would have EXPECTED a discontinuation of the LISA I - too high a price for a "weird" machine (only the PARC freaks could get excited, and they knew it wasn't REALLY a "Dolphin"). But the II's are more machine for less money than the I's, and more to the point, the Macintosh ANCHORS the whole "Apple 32" line. This is even more the case if (as expected) the Mac drops into the $2k range to make room for the "fat mac" around the end of the year. Where does one go when one outgrows one's Macintosh? The popularity of the Mac makes that question inevitable, and only Apple has an answer today (no doubt I will read in the WSJ tomorrow that Big Blue has announced windowing software for the PC, available 1Q86!). (*sigh*) oh, damn...to any sensible observer it seems ridiculous that Apple would kill the LISA. Guess that means it's gonna happen any minute... =Ned=