Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site loral.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!ihnp4!zehntel!hplabs!sdcrdcf!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard From: simard@loral.UUCP (Ray Simard) Newsgroups: net.micro,net.micro.apple,net.flame Subject: Re: Apple Shafts America; or, The Computer For the Rich of Us Message-ID: <508@loral.UUCP> Date: Mon, 24-Sep-84 16:01:06 EDT Article-I.D.: loral.508 Posted: Mon Sep 24 16:01:06 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 27-Sep-84 03:31:50 EDT References: <1164@hao.UUCP> Organization: Loral Instrumentation, San Diego, CA Lines: 42 > Why is it that any sleezy, (sic) 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? What do you mean by sleazy? If you mean that you think everyone in those glass towers is another J. R. Ewing, you're entertaining a myth. If you mean that the management won't sell something unless the sale is profitable then that is not sleazy, it's inevitable, and desirable. There is a word for businesses that are not run that way: bankrupt. > For some reason, I thought Apple was a little different. Note the past >tense. No, it follows the same rules. You can tell because they are still in business. > 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. Most new items are placed on the market at a price gauged by the manage- ment to be appropriate. When sales figures arrive that show the decision was inappropriate, adjustments are made. Sure it's annoying to see the sale price drop after you've paid the higher price, but consider this: if the price had not dropped, would you now be any richer? What would the cost be? You must have felt that the item was worth what you paid for it, otherwise you'd not have made the purchase. Has the item changed? Neither Apple nor the company you work for can exist without engaging in profitable enterprise. Your paycheck attests to that. If it were not for "moneygrubbers", you'd be out of work. -- [ I am not a stranger, but a friend you haven't met yet ] Ray Simard Loral Instrumentation, San Diego {ucbvax, ittvax!dcdwest}!sdcsvax!sdcc6!loral!simard