Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dalcs!aucs!peter
From: peter@aucs.UUCP (Peter Steele)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us?
Message-ID: <1270@aucs.UUCP>
Date: 27 Sep 88 11:29:13 GMT
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Organization: School of Computer Science, Acadia Univ., Nova Scotia
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>I doubt that anyone at Apple took great joy in raising prices.  If Apple was
>out to get every dollar possible, don't you think we would have raised
>prices a while ago?  The demand for machines hasn't gone up only recently;
>it has been high for quite a while.  Memory has been tight for many months.
>It would have been very easy to raise the price of CPUs at the same time we
>raised the price of memory upgrades.

Is this implying that at least one of the reasons that the prices were
increased in because of the increased memory prices? If so, why did the
Mac SE dual floppy go up more than the Mac SE HD20? And why did the Mac Plus
not go up at all (not that I'm complaining about that--it's all we can afford
now)?

I can't fault Apple for wanting to increase their profits. They are a
business first and foremost. But it is depressing to those of us who
against many odds try to promote Apple equipment. Large universities
and businesses can overlook these increases. But not the little guys.
It is very clear that Apple has left us behind...


-- 
Peter Steele, Microcomputer Applications Analyst
Acadia University, Wolfville, NS, Canada B0P1X0 (902)542-2201x121
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