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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
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Date: Sat, 22-Sep-84 11:53:23 EDT
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Posted: Sat Sep 22 11:53:23 1984
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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