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To: Essam Zaneldin who wrote (23103)	2/11/1999 12:25:00 AM
From: yofal	Respond to of 213173

Anybody got the skinny on this Adobe/Corel battle? It's interesting to surmise as to the effect on Apple, given that Corel is currently sitting on some of the last significant MSFT alternatives out there for the Macintosh (like them or not) in the business market (as well as one of Adobe's chief rivals in the consumer/pro graphics market) Corel's been heading south for a while now - they might just roll to get it over with...at least they don't "lose" to MSFT... emmell

To: Essam Zaneldin who wrote (23103)	2/11/1999 12:33:00 AM
From: Richard Habib	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 213173

Essam, pretty interesting business. The weakness seems to be the limited choice available right now for merchandise. I could see it being quite a thing, if there was sufficient choice - imagine in an urban area if you included a choice like an online grocer. Norm, regarding your comments, I wonder how stagnant marketshare or even a slightly declining marketshare based on a large installed base growing in absolute terms would go over on the street. But just as a thought experiment imagine years down the road if Apple had 0.1% marketshare of a very, very large market. Even though millions of computers might be in that base it probably wouldn't go over well. Soup, I may be wrong about the P1 not selling that much more than PBs. Right now it's hard to determine what Apple has in mind for the feature set. Well have to wait. Don't think it will make Macworld Japan but it'd be nice. Rich