Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Apple Inc. -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Marc Newman who wrote (8086)	1/31/1998 12:06:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 213173

Marc; Re Japan. The Japanese distribution model has been multi tiered with big markups at each level. I suspect that Apple will collapse that and perhaps go to a direct model, and bypass many levels of gouging wholesalers and retailers. In Japan the high price of the Apple was subsumed by the high cost distribution chain and did not matter as long as things were going well in Japan Things change, and now the Japanese are being forced into better competitive patterns, I suspect Apple will announce some such soon, if not already. I am not sure if it will be direct, or just less tiered, but I suspect direct is it. Bill

To: Marc Newman who wrote (8086)	1/31/1998 2:27:00 AM
From: J R KARY	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Hi Marc seems S. Jobs as CEO is moving to the forefront again Soloman's analyst covers it and AAPL's future: cbs.marketwatch.com AAPL's former CTO Ellen Hancock told us in 1996 that enterprise servers and multi-platform OSs were in AAPL's future . But a $500 Mac connected to a server would be mega-winner. Jim K.

To: Marc Newman who wrote (8086)	1/31/1998 7:44:00 AM
From: Edward Boghosian	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Marc: You won your bet. I did not consider or did not realize the extent of belt-tightening on the bottom line. I do hope they come to market very soon with a > $1000 item. I'm not fully convinced the "Mercedes" image is the way to go. I'm not a computer expert but I think most people who buy computers really don't know too much about computers and trust the sales person, unfortunately. Correct me on the following: if the Mac OS is "better" than Windows 95 and is improving and Intel may be writing Rhapsody into their chip(I'm not sure on this point), where does that leave Microsoft? Isn't the Apple OS now competing with Windows? When and if people realize the advantages of the OS, will they not leave Windows and go to Apple? Ed