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To: Alomex who wrote (20706)	11/11/1998 3:44:00 PM
From: Andrew Danielson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213182

<<A while back I wrote about the risks of the old style thinking taking over once again in Apple. IMHO the failure to reduce iMac prices is going back to the customer-gouging high prices that got them in trouble in the first place.>> Right. Apple knows the sales figures more than anyone else, and they have to judge quickly whether this lag is natural/temporary or symptomatic of reduced customer interest. If it's the latter, start dropping that price immediately. No waiting. This is a quick industry, and the old AAPL had the habit of making decisions like they were a bank, not a tech.

To: Alomex who wrote (20706)	11/12/1998 7:27:00 PM
From: Dylan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213182

Alomex, don't forget that most university stores are or have offered the iMac at a price below $1299. Here at UCLA it was available for $1229, though I am not 100% certain that it is still available for that since the sign did say "limited time offer." To everyone that is concerned that the Mac platform is dead, the explosion of the net is the best thing to ever happen to Apple. It doesn't matter which OS you have if you spend most of your time on the web. (To those who understand XML better than I do, please excuse the errors my following statements are likely to make. Feel free to correct me, but don't slam me.) As far as other software, where the concern is that M$FT will stop making Mac Office, the future is applications that function as objects that sit in a browser interface, written in XML, a more sophisticated sibling language of html that will replace html in the next few years. Reading about Lotus 2000 and Office 2000 makes it sound like the OS will matter very little very soon for most applications as they will all function similar to proprietary plug-ins in web pages. Further extensions of this will allow people to create things such as Excel documents that sit inside web pages, but are only usable by people who own Excel. When this happens, there will be little reason to prefer one OS over another for the sole reason of better software. This may well happen within five years, the end of the Office commitment to Mac. -Dylan