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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
AAPL 274.11-1.5%Dec 15 3:59 PM EST
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To: Scott Crumley who wrote (2813)7/8/1997 3:33:00 PM
From: Russ   of 213176
 
Regarding Japan and software, do you remember the Fifth Generation Project? MITI pegged software as one of the starategic industries back in the 70's or early 80's, and decided that Japan would target that industry and become a dominant player. The spent billions of dollars and about ten years before pulling the plug with nothing to show for it. The software industry in Japan never recovered from it.

Yourdon has a book called "The Decline and Fall of the American Programmer" where he predicts the big challenge in software to come from India.

As far as selling computers in Japan, that is a very different environment than the US. There is a certain herd mentality here, but in Japan conformism is very important. I remember reading in the pre Windows days that the Mac should have had the entire market (Japanese can't be displayed in a text based DOS environment, but it works fine in a graphical environment such as the Mac, and the Mac has good language support), but even then there were sales of DOS boxes solely because they were the dominant platform in the US, and it was considered very desirable to use the majority platform even if it wasn't of much use in a given environment.

Getting back on topic, anyone care to post loss estimates for next week's announcement, and market reaction?

-Russ
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