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From: mig@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Meir)
Subject: Re: Publicizing NeXT
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Date: Mon, 13 May 1991 18:24:10 GMT

In article <SCOTT.91May11134012@nic.gac.edu> scott@nic.gac.edu (Scott Hess) writes:
>In article <1991May10.003154.5601@math.ucla.edu> barry@pico.math.ucla.edu (Barry Merriman) writes:
>   In article <91124.215239IO92395@MAINE.BITNET> IO92395@MAINE.BITNET (T.C.A.Venkatesan) writes:
>   >I think a similar thing can be done by NeXT as a great promotion campaign. They
>   >may not want to lease NeXTs to students, but they could lease them to
>   >Universities for faculty to use and to the industry, for an year or so. 
>   (1) Their factory only has a 100,000 machine/yr capacity, so
>       that puts an upper bound on how much of this they could do,
>       unless they were making money off the leases.
>Until they are putting out enough to keep up with demand, this can
>wait.  You might notice that NeXT's not been doing any sort of
>aggressive marketing - this is at least partially due to the
>fact that if they started getting orders for 100 machines/week,
>they'd not be able to fill them.  What happens if the adds went
>well (like Data General's), and they start selling 200/week?

Then I guess they'd just have to build a bigger factory and relegate
themselves to the thought of being popular and a future leader in computing
technology.  Oh well.  And I thought they WANTED their platform to be popular
and have lasting impact!

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