marmoset@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dave Walker) (11/16/90)
>Apple is operating under no such constraints. Sure, they're not going to >take over the PC market any time soon, but they sell an awful lot of Macs >and Laserwriters, and will probably sell many many Classics. (Does anyone >have any sales numbers?) They (and NeXT) are in business to make as much > If PC Week magazine is to be believed, analysts are predicting that Apple will sell between 150,000 and 200,000 Classics by the end of 1990. Dealers are placing orders faster than they can be filled. >David McKenzie >mckenzie@portia.stanford.edu +------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Dave Walker, Marmoset Design Ltd. | | marmoset@ub.cc.umich.edu "I don't read, I just guess" | | marmoset@mondo.engin.umich.edu -Happy Mondays, "Wrote For Luck" | +------------------------------------------------------------------------+
gwangung@milton.u.washington.edu (Roger Tang) (11/16/90)
In article <1990Nov15.184909.995@engin.umich.edu> marmoset@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dave Walker) writes:
!!Apple is operating under no such constraints. Sure, they're not going to
!!take over the PC market any time soon, but they sell an awful lot of Macs
!!and Laserwriters, and will probably sell many many Classics. (Does anyone
!!have any sales numbers?) They (and NeXT) are in business to make as much
!
!If PC Week magazine is to be believed, analysts are predicting that Apple
!will sell between 150,000 and 200,000 Classics by the end of 1990.
!Dealers are placing orders faster than they can be filled.
I can believe that. At a lot of the local dealers, there are signifi-
cant backlogs of orders. At the local university shoppe, there's no hope of
anybody on the waiting list getting one before early December.
Now you have to wonder what took 'em so long to figure this out.....rose@beowulf.ucsd.edu (Dan Rose) (11/16/90)
marmoset@mondo.engin.umich.edu (Dave Walker) writes: >If PC Week magazine is to be believed, analysts are predicting that Apple >will sell between 150,000 and 200,000 Classics by the end of 1990. >Dealers are placing orders faster than they can be filled. Just to add anecdotes to the fray, I've noticed that the computer store advertisements in the L.A. Times have largely stopped listing the Classic. When the new machines were introduced, the stores were pushing both the Classic and the IIsi. Now they only mention the IIsi. My guess is that they're backlogged with Classic orders and see no more reason to advertise them. -- Dan Rose {ucbvax,decvax,akgua,dcdwest}!sdcsvax!beowulf!rose.uucp UC San Diego rose%cs@ucsd.edu