Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!oberon!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer
From: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu (David Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Changing the World, One Person at a Time (long)
Message-ID: <8079@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu>
Date: 24 Sep 88 19:23:00 GMT
References: <430043@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <3600031@iuvax> <69545@sun.uucp> <1282@cbnews.ATT.COM> <6295@ut-emx.UUCP> <17682@apple.Apple.COM>
Sender: news@cit-vax.Caltech.Edu
Reply-To: palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu.UUCP (David Palmer)
Organization: California Institute of Technology
Lines: 19

From what I hear of the NeXT machine (the wild rumors posted here from the
Sept 19th issue of ?InfoWorld? and more reasonable rumors posted on
a local bulletin board) I would pay ~$1000 for ROMs which would make
Steve Job's hardware run like a Macintosh.  Alternatively, I would buy
the Mac III, hardware equivalent to the NeXT, for $1000 more than I would
pay for the NeXT.

How about it, Apple?  If low production capability is the reason you are
raising prices, you can just buy up NeXT's entire output, plug in new
ROMS (production facilities for ROMs are very cheap and require little
lead time) and make a killing  (~$950 a machine, plus the additional
market share you cannot currently fill, plus being on the cutting
edge again.)

		David Palmer
		palmer@tybalt.caltech.edu
		...rutgers!cit-vax!tybalt.caltech.edu!palmer
			"Flowers -- Just say NO!!"
					- Mighty Mouse