Michael Bryan Bell wrote:
> They're doing it for 3 reasons:
>
> 1) they're looking at a loss in the current quarter- which means any little
> bit helps if it will be a small loss. If you believe apple's statistics,
> there are 2.5 million active OSX users. If 5% of them preorder 10.2, that's
> ~$16.1 million. Helps the bottom line, when you consider the xserve so far
> will net them ~20 million.
>
Why on earth would it matter when Apple is sitting on $150 billion in cash?
They don't have to do this to save their butts. Their future is VERY secure.
> Basically though, apple is doing it because they can.
That is *exacltly* the reason Michael. Because they can. They know it and you
know it. I will buy 6 copies of Jaguar for my home machines without even
blinking. They got me.
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