Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 6/7/83; site hao.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!hao!ward From: ward@hao.UUCP (Mike Ward) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple,net.flame Subject: Re: Apple Shafts America; or, The Computer For the Rich of Us Message-ID: <1164@hao.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 23:57:48 EDT Article-I.D.: hao.1164 Posted: Fri Sep 21 23:57:48 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 02:21:38 EDT References: <755@ihuxk.UUCP> Organization: High Altitude Obs./NCAR, Boulder CO Lines: 22 [] Why is it that any sleezy, slimy, dirty action by a corporation is excused as the corporation's obligation to it's stockholders? Are there no decent owners of stock in this country? Is it really a businessman's ethic to be a greedy, moneygrubbing SOB at the expense of his customers? For some reason, I thought Apple was a little different. Note the past tense. I paid list price because when I got mine that's all there was. If I had thought the $2400 machine I was buying would devaluate ~$1000 in six months, I can assure you that I would have waited. But then if I and all the others who bought in the first 100 days had waited, all the rest of you would have been able to pick up the Mac for $100 - and you would have said no, thank you. -- Michael Ward, NCAR/SCD UUCP: {hplabs,nbires,brl-bmd,seismo,menlo70,stcvax}!hao!ward ARPA: hplabs!hao!sa!ward@Berkeley BELL: 303-497-1252 USPS: POB 3000, Boulder, CO 80307