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To: Alomex who wrote (13990)	5/25/1998 1:02:00 AM
From: Zen Dollar Round	Respond to of 213177

Re: MacWEEK changing names. I was not aware of this one. This one should raise all manner of warning flags on an AAPL investor. What will be their new focus? I was not surprised at this move, given the shrinkage in the number of pages in MacWEEK over the last year. Truth is, MacWEEK's value as a rumor and news rag has gone down substantially since the advent of the Web. There are now many sites, including MacWEEK's own, that have news and reviews I can get at least a week ahead of the print edition. MacWEEK is simply a victim of the success of the medium on which it reported. Reportedly, it also had more to do with Intergraph's influences as a major advertiser in MacWEEK as the purveyor of their Windoze graphics systems that forced the change. The MacWEEK web site will continue on after the print publication changes over to eMedia Weekly or whatever they call it. This should give little cause for concern to investors in AAPL. You should really read more about the entire issue before you post something like that. I'll be canceling my subscription to MacWEEK before the first issue of the new mag ever hits my mailbox. Apple claims to have 20 and change million users out there (personally I think the actual figure is much smaller), but, say, even if it was one fifth of that number, you still have a potential market of 4-5 million users. Are you drunk? No, actually, two years ago Apple claimed to have 57 million users when counting the fact that many machines are used by more than one person. I haven't heard any published figures lately from Apple, but my God man, they sell 3 million Macs a year! Even at lower revenues and market share, only 4 to 5 million users is a laughably small figure to base your "even if" theory on. As for the iMac, I think many purchasers will be first-time buyers who aren't heavily invested in peripherals they can't use with the new machine, as well as those interested in getting on the Internet and students. I think the potential in education is huge, especially for college students living in campus housing with direct Ethernet access in their rooms. The iMac is tailor made for such people.