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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (17536)9/2/1998 12:37:00 PM
From: BillHoo   of 213181
 
<<these people were very wealthy. The vast majority of people do not live this way.>>

And why would they be able to spend hard-earned yen on an iMac?

I've been to Japan and Korea.

Korea was interesting, coal-burning heat and thatch-walled huts, dirt roads everywhere. Funny to see businessmen wearing suits standing next to pigs and goats at the bus stop with dust billowing from passing trucks on the dirt road. Electricity in the town square. I can imagine the lone iMac located at the town-hall where people gather around it's little screen.

Japan where a Quarter-Pounder with cheese cost me $10.95 American in 1987. How much is that imported iMac?

I have friends travelling in Indonesia. I hear from them once a month when they get near a major city that has a hotel where they can login to a computer.

Huge potential, but not when you can't buy rice and bitter greens to feed your family.

-Bill_H
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