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Pastimes : Ask Mohan about the Market

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To: Cynic 2005 who wrote (10511)12/8/1997 4:01:00 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (1) of 18056
 
Hi Mohan; About those computer average sales prices. I noted
somewhere over the weekend that ASPs on both consumer and
business computers are declining.

Funny thing on Saturday. I bot a used Miata over at ParkPlace
motors in Bellevue, WA. ('96 with only 5000 miles on it. Hard
to enjoy a rag top in Seattle. :) They sell a lot of stuff to the MSFT
crowd. But they printed their forms with a dot matrix connected
to what I was told was a 10-year old DOS machine. They said
they weren't in the least bit worried about year 2000 problems.
The dealer doesn't have any other branches, so their accounting
probably doesn't have that many entries, they could have done
it by hand. I've got a suspicion that business computers are
approaching the maximum needs of business. When that finally
happens, the impetus for computer replacement and upgrades
and software changes and all that will be greatly reduced. In
other words, it looks to me like the PC business is slowly begin-
ing to saturate and stabilize. And that eventually causes extremely
low margins and pricing. (BWDIK)

-- Carl
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