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To: Eric Yang who wrote (21804)	1/5/1999 2:32:00 PM
From: Andrew Danielson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Orange? I love the new colors, but does anyone but me question why they chose "orange" as one of the colors?? I mean, how many people decorate their home in orange wallpaper, orange carpet? Orange anything? Why not a soft yellow? Call it "lemon" if you have to, but anything's going to be more popular than orange. The other thing is that they still don't have a color that would be described as "business-like." I wonder what a jet-black iMac would look like--kinda ruin the transluscence, I guess. . . Andrew

To: Eric Yang who wrote (21804)	1/6/1999 12:28:00 AM
From: Andrew Danielson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Grossly inappropriate extrapolation . . .is what I'm about to do, for no other reason than to dream a little dream. Jobs mentioned that 1 million copies of 8.5 were sold, 2 million if you include copies shipped with computers. That leaves 1 million units shipped with 8.5. That is, of course, assuming we take these nice, round numbers seriously. 1 million units shipped would be pretty cool, but let's remember something else: 8.5 was released October 17th. The quarter began September 26th (or was it 25th?). That leaves 22 days of computer shipments that apparently go above and beyond the 1 million figure noted earlier. Of course, there were also those 5 or so days at the end of December that were included in the 1 million figure but not in Q1. So 17 days extra. Let's just say that 1 million units, if you take Jobs at his word, is a conservative estimate for Q1. Andrew