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Technology Stocks : Apple Inc.
AAPL 271.01-0.3%Jan 2 9:30 AM EST
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To: Joe E. who wrote (4521)8/27/1997 8:51:00 AM
From: soup   of 213177
 
Windows '95 and Me.

>If my X#@@ Windows 95 machines didn't crash every day I would just short AAPL til
it bounced off book value.<

I laughed out loud when I read this. I can appreciates anyone's trepidation about investing in a company going through as much "strum und drang" as AAPL but sometimes you've got to listen to yourself.

Do a substitute here:

"If my X#@@ 1973 Lincoln Towncar didn't breakdown every day I would just short Honda til
it bounced off book value."

My brother-in-law has a generic 133 Pentium running W'95. He's home recovering from surgery so I thought I'd pick him up a joystick and a package of flight games. I have virtually *no* experience with W'95 so I had a lot of trepidation.

It wasn't as bad as I thought. The DOS flightstick installer couldn't hold the settings but the CH Flightstick tech support talked us through the W'95 set up.

The non-W'95 games wouldn't load and the W'95 ones would sometimes quit for no apparent reason.

Compared to Mac OS8, I found the interface ugly, klunky and missing much of the productivity features that I have long since taken for granted.

(The hardware seemed reasonable except the keyboard cable would fall out its connector if you just looked at it wrong.)

Given real-life experiences exactly like these, and the cross-platform capability of Rhapsody (AAPL reps have been using a P166 to demo Rhapsody at trade shows), I think AAPL has the opportunity to market itself to 100% of the hardware base vs. less than 10% now.

This is the kind of upside you want to focus on.

soup
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