Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!att!alberta!ubc-cs!fornax!mcdonald From: mcdonald@fornax.UUCP (Ken Mcdonald) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Computer for the rest of us? Summary: Apple has NOT won the home or University markets... Message-ID: <749@fornax.UUCP> Date: 27 Sep 88 06:37:26 GMT References: <430043@hpcea.CE.HP.COM> <3600031@iuvax> <69545@sun.uucp> <70045@sun.uucp> Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada Lines: 17 I deleted Chuq's article to save space, but I'd like to reply to his contention that Apple has won the home and university markets as well as they can. This is just not true! There are a very large number of university students who are buying IBM clones because of the difference in price--this is IMPORTANT to students. But I can understand Apple's approach to the U's, they are already giving them a pretty good price break. Much sadder, to my point of view, is the very large number of homes (four families, to my own personal knowledge) who would like to purchase Macs, but find the price to high. To capture a larger share of this market, Apple simply has to introduce a Mac with pricing approx. equal to the current U. price for a Plus. If they can make money marketing Pluses to the universities, they can make money doing this as well, and gain a large and loyal following in the process. Ken McDonald {...!ubc-cs!mcdonald@fornax.UUCP}