RE: Why Steve is God!

Jim Whitehead (ejw@ICS.uci.edu)
Sun, 9 Aug 1998 13:50:12 -0700

A couple quarters of profit is nice, but in an industry dominated by network
effects, market share is king. I have yet to see any evidence that the Mac
platform is increasing its marketshare in the general PC marketplace.
Unless the Mac increases its overall market share, the final outcome (the
Apple nameplate on PC clones) is inevitable.

Of course, solid financial performance is certainly a necessary step towards
regaining lost market share.

- Jim

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Byars [mailto:tbyars@earthlink.net]
> Sent: Saturday, August 08, 1998 6:21 PM
> To: fork@xent.ics.uci.edu
> Subject: Why Steve is God!
>
>
> The iMac is Steve's baby. (BTW Greg I doubt Apple will licence the iMac
> case to Sun. Why compete with yourself? Can you say nMac?)
>
> Ok so I got out my calculator and since I don't have a Pentium I know the
> numbers are correct.
>
> Apple currently has 350,000 orders for iMac
>
> The iMac sells for $1299
>
> 350k x $1299 = $454, 650, 000
>
> Not too shabby, Now considering Apple will lower the price to $999 for
> Christmas we have to assume they are costing Apple $750 each to build so:
>
> 350K x $750 = $ 262, 500, 000
>
> That means a profit of $ 188, 150, 000 on the day of introduction.
>
> Tim
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