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To: FR1 who wrote (10515)	3/30/1998 11:14:00 PM
From: Sam Scrutchins	Respond to of 213176

**** It's exciting - it's a Big Future and this one's hard for even wall street to miss. Excellent response to my post, Frank. Thanks for the great comeback. Sam

To: FR1 who wrote (10515)	3/30/1998 11:22:00 PM
From: Bellvie	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

This site: april fools the mac cse.psu.edu looks like fun but it comes with a warning: "Please, please, please test these out on your Mac before you try them out on someone else's." I haven't tried it.

To: FR1 who wrote (10515)	3/31/1998 2:25:00 PM
From: Randy Tidd	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213176

> In short, the job of getting a entry level price for the whole > Apple product is ultra-critical and nobody knows if Apple will > be able to answer the bell on this one. My guess (and this is pure speculation) is that Rhapsody is not going to be an entry-level or consumer-oriented product, at least initially. It will be geared towards "enterprises" (i.e. large corporate customers) and maybe the server portion of small client/server networks. MacOS will continue to be the consumer-oriented and low-end (i.e. educational or sub-$1000) product. This is the same marketing strategy that MicroSoft employs with Windows NT and Windows 95. MicroSoft says that their ultimate goal is to combine the two operating systems into one, though that is probably still 2-5 years out. Apple might take the same tack, making their single operating system a combination of MacOS and Rhapsody, and then we'll see what we know now as Rhapsody on the consumer's desk. But that would probably take several years. $0.02, Randy