goldfarb@hcx9.UCF.EDU (10/04/89)
>Re: Apple's appeal to stop legislation against student-discount pricing. >The student discount program, in the long run, is a big moneymaker for >Apple. You are obviously very perceptive. There should be an award for this type of thing. >I can see why Apple opposes this legislation. Even greater psychic powers are at play here. Most of us couldn't have made that connection. SERIOUSLY, though. Isn't Apple--as well as the airlines--in business to make money? There's no pretense of a thinly-veiled public service. (When was the last time you went to a product intro and saw Scully or Gassee making a presentation about this spiffy new product that they'd be selling at their cost to benefit humankind?) Apple wants student business. It pays dividends for Apple later on so Apple can pay dividends to their stockholders. That is how capitalism works. No trickery here, just profit motive. >*sigh* So what are you sighing about? If Apple is successful in fighting this legislation--as I hope it is--students like you will continue to be the beneficiaries of not only Apple's, but also IBM's, Zenith's, Microsoft's, and other's unwittingly humanitarian profit-driven discount programs. If you don't like it, go out and pay retail! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Ben Goldfarb uucp: {decvax,peora}!ucf-cs!goldfarb University of Central Florida Internet: goldfarb@hcx9.ucf.edu Department of Computer Science BITNET: goldfarb@ucf1vm.BITNET -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
jacobson@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (10/12/89)
I too seem to have missed the original message on the anti educational discount legislation. I am planning to purchase a Mac SE/30 in the next couple of weeks through such a deal here at the University of Illinois. I am wondering what the status of this is, and if it will be affecting us any time in the near future???? Russ Jacobson Illinois Geological Survey