Personally I've never thought macs in general as 'too expensive', just too expensive for me. With their increase in market share, their obvious success, they are not priced too high. But with their margins, increase in market share, price reductions could keep sending Apple up the market share ladder.
Mike On Tue, Jul 22, 2008 at 4:41 PM, David K Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking of debating ploys, another good one is to > change the subject. :-) > > After Strong Quarter, Apple Signals Changes in Its Prices > > < > http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/technology/22apple.html?nl=tech&emc=techa1 > > > > "...Apple executives hinted during a conference call about Apple's > third-quarter financial statement that they would price products more > aggressively in the future. It planned on taking away what Peter > Oppenheimer, the company's chief financial officer, called > an 'umbrella for our competitors.' " > > It looks like Apple hopes to be able to to dispel the perception that > "Macs are too expensive" while they continue to push their business- > friendly features like Exchange messaging. They also have a > fantastic "no-risk" argument for cautious business types in being able > to say that their OS comes free with their hardware, which can > be used to run windows, either in a virtual machine during a transition > period, or as the primary OS should things not work out otherwise. > > Still, many businesses are much more conservative than business > leaders portray themselves to be. My favorite examples of this is > all the old mainframes that are still maintained in order to run COBOL > programs. > > David > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
