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To: Richard Habib who wrote (23095)	2/10/1999 4:28:00 PM
From: HerbVic	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 213173

Point well taken, Richard. ))))) OT ((((( We had been discussing the frustration of Mac users with getting streaming quotes over the internet in REAL-TIME. I just noticed that Datek now has real time quote streaming. Just set up a portfolio of stocks to track and it will keep the price, bid, ask, last, change, high, low, volume, trade time, bid ID, ask ID, bid size, ask size, and last size updated on the fly. It is a free service of Datek. $9.99 per trade. Note to short term traders: Datek guarantees execution of marketable trades in 1 minute or the trade is commission free. Too bad this is not a public company. These guys are getting it right. HerbVic

To: Richard Habib who wrote (23095)	2/10/1999 8:48:00 PM
From: soup	Respond to of 213173

>Portable's don't sell in large numbers to consumers - they sell to business customers.< Wrong. Major Huge Bleeding Effing Wrong. Oh Richard; That is the wrongest thing you've said. A few months ago we purchased about 50 factory refurbished PB1400c/133s that we were able to sell for $1250. They were gone in about a month. People still come in asking for them. Right now, the cheapest thing we sell is a PB 233G3/12" active matrix display for just under $2000. I can't wait to offer an e-Mate/2400c form factor laptop at iMac prices. It will be like manna from heaven sent to the adoring masses. If they look anything as nice as some of the purported designs (and I have no reason to think Apple's "A-team" will disappoint), we'll be up to our iBalls in pre-orders. Please Dear Jobs, let God unveil it in Tokyo. ---------------- PS> On market share, I don't so much quarrel with your numbers as their importance to the company and the price of the stock. Forgetting relative size, so long as developers see a market and the costs to port are not prohibitive, the MacOS should continue to see new apps (games!). [Suggest you look up David Every's piece on the economics of porting at his MacKiDo site.] So long as AAPL can continue to grow earnings, even if its market share growth increases only incrementally, the stock will do fine. Also, QT/Firewire should add nicely additions to future earnings.