Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!vax135!cornell!uw-beaver!tektronix!hplabs!hao!seismo!brl-tgr!ron From: ron@brl-tgr.ARPA (Ron Natalie) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple,net.flame Subject: Re: Apple Shafts America; or, The Computer For the Rich of Us Message-ID: <4820@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 11:53:23 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.4820 Posted: Sat Sep 22 11:53:23 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 07:00:45 EDT References: <755@ihuxk.UUCP> <1164@hao.UUCP> Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 15 If you didn't think that the Mac was going to drop $1000 from the list price you are overly naive. You could have expected it to drop 20% alone from list as soon as the distribution got set up such that they were fairly available. Technology in this industry marches fast and now Apple has a new computer that they can productively sell for a comparable price as the old one. This is the only way a company can stay in business in this market. DEC will be in this boat if they don't come out with a newer computer soon, they are getting walked all over by people with brand new fast and cheap minis that beat the shit out of the 780 family. What would you have had Apple do? Inflate the price of their new product so it would devalue the existing products selling price? -Ron