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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Knighty Tin who wrote (55533)	4/10/1999 11:44:00 PM
From: Skeeter Bug	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 132070

better late than never... seems the number keeps dropping. yesterday 3%, today 10%, tomorrow... ;-) >>Why chase this low-margin market? After all, it has hardly been kind to income statements. Despite zippy 23.5% unit volume growth in PCs for the fourth quarter of 1998, revenues in the U.S. home PC market shrank 10%, says Dataquest Inc. analyst David Stremba. The problem is that PC makers know they won't be able to build new businesses fast enough to meet Wall Street's expectations -- and so they have no choice but to keep the pedal to the metal on PC sales. <<