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