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To: soup who wrote (7832)	1/19/1998 11:44:00 AM
From: Doug Smith	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Soup As I have mentioned several times on this thread, European sales are quite brisk. I base this only on trying to find a G3 to demo, much less buy, in Switzerland, Northern Italy and Eastern France. That is one reason why I think that Q2 may post a much needed surprise profit. By mid Feb. the resellers in Europe and Japan will have ample acess to boxes which they did not have at the time of the initial offering of the G3 push. I am still conerned with international marketing, as well as domestic, but things could go quite well in the Q2 if US 1Q demand is mirrored in international sales. I have not seen any substantial local figures, but your link certainly poses quite a good context to speculate on Q2 sales abroad. Good luck to all Doug

To: soup who wrote (7832)	1/19/1998 1:37:00 PM
From: Sam Scrutchins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Also, while G3 sales should prop things up short-to mid-term, I think more powerful WinTel emulations such as Virtual PC 2.0 and the reported "Yellow Box" inclusion in Allegro (OS 8.5/9.0) should make Mac CPUs far more acceptable to consumer/small business buyers. Soup, I absolutely agree with you. While I've been an Apple investor for over a decade (because I've always thought the company has the best computer technology), I work and exist in a Wintel enviroment. Consequently, I have had little choice but to buy PCs. I was looking forward to the CHRP computers for this reason, and now I am looking forward to getting a Mac of some sort with a yellow box if it will give me virtually native speed for software from the PC world. This will allow me to have the best of both platforms. IMHO, I think there are a lot of consumers and even businesses out there who will shift to Macs under this scenario. I am surprised that Apple has not hyped such capabilities in their advertisements. Then again, holding apple stock has been one of the worst decisions of my life because of the company's dismal marketing capabilities. There's always hope. Sam

To: soup who wrote (7832)	1/19/1998 6:05:00 PM
From: BillHoo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

"Apple's Europe sales up 47%." I think this is because of the lawsuits that several European nations are filing against MicroSoft. I just got the tail end of a news report on the radio a couple weeks ago about several states (in the U.S) that are filing lawsuits against MicroSoft and how several European nations are planning to do the same. With the states, I believe it was the same old internet explorer debate. With the European countries, I think it was about MSFT stifling their development of software industries or something like that. Anyone hear anything more concrete? If that is the case, than hey! Maybe the entire nation of Spain may be using Macs and there will be an EC ban on Windows. Wouldn't that be a hoot! -Bill_H