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[Mike Hebel]

Kevin Lee wrote:
> You watch there are already lots of FORGET IT STEVE we wont pay for that web
> sites
> sprouting up.  So just when APPLE needs good press in a market downturn they
> go
> and do this.  Who thought this up?   You never kick your customer when their
> down.
> Wait until your rolling in cash and dropping the prices on things and
> everyone is
> all happy joy joy, and then slide it in and try to get people to empathise
> with you.
> 
> But NO JOBS JUST DROPS a BOMB and expects to get away with it.

A friend of mine calls it the "Steve Jobs Personal Reality Distortion 
Field".  It surrounds him and anyone he works with.  He says that the 
moon shall be an apple and they start pointing out the bites in the 
crust.  On one hand it's allowed him to produce some of the better 
computers and OS in the world - on the other hand it makes him able to 
do some pretty stupid things.  I suspect an accounting suit is behind 
all this somehow.

> All of the web sites and WSJ and lots of newspapers are writing about how
> APPLE
> is screwing their customers out of $99 a year. Bad press #1

Hmph!  They should be doing more reporting about how othe companies are 
screwing their customers.  Until recently Apple has done a decent job IMHO.

> BOMB #2 OSX 10.2 will cost existing 10.1 owners full whack no discount.

Thank you "Microsoft Pricing Model"

> BOMB #3 No new Powermacs

Honestly, this market makes it hard enough to pay for an older Mac let a 
lone a new one.  I could accept no new Macs for a while.  (Even if I 
would like the big iMac. ;-)


> BOMB #4 No new Powerbooks

See number 3.

> BOMB #5 NO price discounts on anything except the most expensive imac 15inch
> and that is after they raise the price by 100 dollars 3 months ago.

IMHO Apple needs to drop their prices for everything.  While it's good 
to produce quality products they need to remember who they're selling 
them to.  Not everyone is willing to pay more for their computer than 
some of the cars they's owned.

> All in all I am glad I DO NOT WASTE MY MONEY in going to this DUD of a SHOW.
> Instead of Apple getting a lot of good press which is what you want when
> your in
> a down market and their stock is tanking they do and announce this tripe.

Well, every company does some stupid things.  I think this one is a 
combination of boneheadedness and some corporate suit trying to blossom.
I sincerely hope that suit isn't Jobs.

Mike Hebel