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To: stak who wrote (62279)8/11/1998 10:53:00 AM
From: mauser96   of 186894
 
That's the real question. Nobody knows what price levels would be needed to produce significant increases in US market penetration. Your figures are just guesses. As Paul Engel pointed out, computers are different from other consumer items, in that they are intended to do more than one task, and they are interactive. Therefore their public acceptance likely will be different. Add to this the difficulty in operating present computers, and their rapid obsolescence and you have a different picture from the adoption curve of items like color TV's. My guess is that it will be a very long time (if ever)before market penetration exceeds 80%. From what I have read, many of the new cheaper computers are going into homes that already have one computer.
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