bobh@pedsgd.UUCP (Bob Halloran) (08/21/85)
The current EE Times has a lead story on the planned 'open' Macs.
They sound interesting. The 'Jonathan' especially looks nice. Anyone
out there in a position to confirm/deny/elaborate on anything in there?
Anyone out there think the 'leak' has anything to do with the
Amiga and Atari ST releases? :-) :-) Are we seeing Apple trying
to save some market share with a calculated leak?
Despite any flames about relative engineering merits of the machines
in question, the fact remains that the mass market will see that
in the Mac vs. Amiga vs. Atari ST debate, the Mac has the highest
price tag and the least internal expandability. If Apple is
interested in marketing, this will HAVE to be addressed. It would
seem that these 'open' Macs are to address the issue.
Are we seeing Apple engineering coming to grips with reality?
With the mass-market competition in 68K-based bit-mapped boxes,
will we see Apple PRICING come to grips with reality?
For the answer to these and other thrilling questions, I suspect
we'll have to hang around 'til the next Apple shareholders'
meeting in February.
Bob Halloran
Sr MTS, Perkin-Elmer DSG
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