My economics schooling years ago taught me
that everything will normally sell for what the
market will bear (let me keep that gross
generalization for the point of this post!).
To me, this means that the various Road
Apples, however crippled they were reletive to
what could have been produced, still sold at a
discount relative to the "goog" Macs, making
them "worth the money".
Why that isn't good enough:
This works for Wintels which sell to a price
point to an audience largely either ambivelent
or uneducated as to what alternatives lie out in
the marketplace.
But Macs are seen as "different" and "special"
as a GROUP, and when one or more models
are somewhat obviously flawed or
compromised, there's a greater chance that
Road Apple speaks for the whole of the
platform. Fodder for the Wintel world, and Mac
newbies who are then easily swayed (rightfully
so) to Windows boxes.
Almost happened in my family. We were first
exposed to the Apple IIe (upgraded to GS) and
then an SE 4/40 w/ SuperDrive. Then came
along the WWW and a 5200CD, and
15-minute web page downloads, and worse.
It may not be fair to judge the whole of the
platform on a turkey like that, but by then it's
just piling on anyway.
If introduced right now, would a 266 G3 Mac
without any upgrade path (no cards, soldered
CPU etc.) that sold for $249 be seen as a
good thing today? If so, why?
-David
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