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To: Sam Scrutchins who wrote (7216)	11/8/1997 12:45:00 AM
From: Kashish King	Respond to of 10836

Rhapsody is "today" what JavaOS hopes to be. Huh? Whoever made that statement needs to get their crap-o-meter recalibrated. It's not that I don't think Rhapsody doesn't have a chance to be a strong Java host operating environment, but I hardly think claiming Rhapsody is all-that before it has been released is sensible. Personally, I don't care who wins that war, I just don't want to have to deal with ActiveXcrement and Visual Basic when I can purchase the platform of my choice (say, an SGI box) and develop software for any environment; Rhapsody, JavaOS or otherwise.

To: Sam Scrutchins who wrote (7216)	11/8/1997 9:28:00 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10836

Sam, I don't think too much about AAPL these days. I bought it a while back at about 16 and made $10/share in 2 weeks when it jumped to 26 overnight. Then I bought puts and made money as it went back down. I figure that's all I deserve for a while<g>. While I think Java and NCs and other technologies are giving AAPL a chance to dig out of the hole, I have every expectation they will fail to do so. They have shown themselves, time and time again, to be unwilling to do so. They got their heads stuck in the sand years ago and just haven't gotten out of it. Of course, IBM did this, too, for a very long time, and finally started figuring things out. AAPL must recognize that great technology is nothing, unless you market it. If you want to make money, you have to sell not the superior product, but the product people want. Ask McDonalds. In the referenced article, they talk about major change over the coming year, that could be the ticket. This is central to anything good happening at AAPL.