Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site zeppo.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!harvard!wjh12!genrad!decvax!harpo!zeppo!jrl From: jrl@zeppo.UUCP (J. Liano) Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Greedy Apples Message-ID: <1114@zeppo.UUCP> Date: Tue, 9-Oct-84 13:46:25 EDT Article-I.D.: zeppo.1114 Posted: Tue Oct 9 13:46:25 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 12-Oct-84 05:38:31 EDT Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Whippany Lines: 19 I tend to agree that Apple Computer Corp. is doing what any person would do. It is charging the higest price the market will bear. After all they are'nt in business to benefit mankind. Greedy captialist pigs and all that. However $ 995 for the 512K upgrade is quite steep. I have read that 256K DRAMS go for around $ 20 a piece. Let's see that 512K = 16 chips X 20 bucks = $320. Add another 15 for the board and maybe 60 for the glue chips, pullups and caps and the price goes up to $ 400 bucks. Add 125% markup and you have the $995 cost all accounted for. A similar tale can be told for hard disk drives - OEM price around $400, Retail price $ 1995. The moral being, If you don't like being taken by large, greedy corporations, you can always wrap your own boards and cut out the middlepersons. zeppo!jrl