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To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (11812)	4/18/1998 11:34:00 PM
From: Sam Scrutchins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213176

Roy, Eric, or anyone, I missed any comments on Apple's internet store and how well it did in Q2. Does anyone have this info, or is Steve keeping it to himself? TIA Sam

To: Zen Dollar Round who wrote (11812)	4/19/1998 4:59:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 213176

Roy, Win95 runs quite well on a fast 486 machine with, as you say , 16 meg memory. Load it with ie4 and it really bogs down. When I speak of leaving behind I refer to the Apple II+ to Mac leap as such a leap. Of course program bloat makes one move to larger systems, however I can still run DOS programs on my Pentium in two modes. They say DOS will be toast in the 2000 Windows, along with all other 16 bit vestiges. When ever you have a dramatic jump, some stay with the old, some upgrade to the new and some jump ship. Sometimes you need to make a dramatic change, othertimes not. IMO it was good to keep the Mac Plussers on board as long as possible. An abrupt repeated forced change would have made even more jump ship. When ever you *REQUIRE* things like that you make a fork in the road. People who must either stay where they are or buy a new machine that is either APple or Wintel(as none of their old programs can be used on the new Apple or Wintel) will choose and you will lose quite a number. Let us say 1/3rd stays behind, 1/3rd goes new Apple and 1/3rd goes new Wintel, in addition you have new recruitment, but that is at the 3-5% of new systems. This would not be good for Apple at all. What happened the last time Apple did it? It leaves a real bad taste to be left in the dust, never doe it lightly or often. I do have a clue about market dynamics, I would never have suggested what you suggested, it is almost suicidal at this juncture. Bill