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To: Paul Engel who wrote (62810)8/20/1998 1:34:00 PM
From: Hal Rubel  Read Replies (4) of 186894
 
iMAC

RE: "Even a charitable reading of the iMac specs shows it to be a merely competitive box, roughly on par with similarly priced PCs. ...The iMac has stiff competition: The Acer Entra, for example, sells for a whopping $500 less....the iMac isn't even close to being a price leader: It's blown away by the aggressive clone boxes ...Plus, the Wintel boxes have more applications available -- not a trivial issue. there's no way the iMac is going to make significant inroads in terms of market share. Apple users will remain on the outer fringes of mainstream computing."

Please Don't Forget:
* iMac runs the Mac OS -Clone Boxes do not.

Also:
* iMac runs Windows as an option -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac runs Motorola G3 PowerPC Chip -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac claims to be Fast -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac includes built in Monitor -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac has ATI Rage Pro on Motherboard -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac provides pleasant User Experience -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac works as a Powerful Toy -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac competes for Macintosh Users -Clone Boxes do not.

* iMac provides "The computer for the rest of us." -Clone Boxes do not.

As to making inroads into market share, if Mac users buy more Mac computers, then there will be an increase in Mac market share. (Do the math.)

Substance, value, and style will maintain an alternative minority presence in the marketplace for Macintosh in a world otherwise fixated on computing orthodoxy.

Hal

PS: Name us a must-have computer program that is not one of the 12,000 Macintosh available titles? HR
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