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To: tcmay who wrote (168095)	7/13/2002 5:55:27 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 186894

Tim, Well, with less than 3% share by $$ or 2% share by boxes it is an operating company of some substance, but it seems to be doing little to stem the year by year decline. How close is it to being bought up by others? = corporate death, like cpq has died such a death. Nothing at all was wrong with the Apple. When they were making money and had 100% share of the PC market they fell into bad management habits. Wasted huge amounts of money. I remember the huge seas of surplus Apple parts, etc hitting the market as they kept to their unswerving failed strategy of huge margins and waste at all levels. They sat on their high horse and wanted the world to come to them, instead the world voted with their wallets and they also liked a few killer aps that came along on the 8088 and 80286 and the decline began. There was a seemingly endless supply of feet for Apple to shoot themselves in. I doubt they can come back unless they get a parallel market going(licenced clones) They were so smart, the killed clones and their share fell even more. They should have managed the clone market to make an OS profit as well as a CPU profit that varied with the box the clone maker was making. the flat fee encouraged the cloners to make high end boxes, where what was wanted was very low cost low end boxes to spread the word. Bill