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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
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Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 23:57:48 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 21 23:57:48 1984
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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
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