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To: FruJu who wrote (26977)	11/14/1999 2:27:00 PM
From: Doren	Read Replies (1) of 213182

The Ataris, the Colecos, the Commodores, the Mattels that all tried to sell computers to the consumer market in the 80s were wiped out. Why? The point I was trying to make on the consumer overboard thing is if the professionals are not creating content on Macs the content will be for Wintel machines. Imagine a world full of iMacs that can't access content on the web. It's already true to some extent, when you hit a JAVA site. Sure JAVA is slow today but think about it, if you have a 2Gb processor how much differences will it make. Slow processor + slow internet access + poor to none JAVA support = ? The other thing is folks, friends(?), aquaintainces(?). Stocks don't always go up. Apple really didn't have anywhere to go but up when it was at 12. It's possible that we're on top of a hill wearing roller skates now. Not that I think we are. But the tactics Apple has employed lately should, at the VERY least, give long term investors some pause to think. Certainly many professionals are re-considering the wisdom of large Macintosh investments. If it starts to slide it's likely to be a slow slide. Although if AMD continues to perform like it has lately...

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