Re: Apple posted a $55 million Q2 profit

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Randy Shackelford writes ...
> 
> Check out the details at > http://www.apple.com/pr/library/1998/apr/15q2.html
> Pretty cool eh?

     $55 million profit definitely beats the heck out of last year's
$708 million loss for the same quarter.

     The press release winds up with ...

>>


     Apple Computer, Inc. ignited the personal computer revolution in
the 1970s with the Apple II, and reinvented the personal computer in the
1980s with the Macintosh.

<<

     Yes; and, a bunch of PC cloners reinvented the personal computer
back to the Apple II model and proceeded to eat Apple's lunch.     



>>

     Apple is now recommitted to its original mission - to bring the
best personal computing products and support to students, educators,
designers, scientists, engineers, businesspersons and consumers in over
140 countries around the world. 

<<

     Apple has "recommitted to its original mission"? Where have we
heard _that_ before?


     Look, as long as Apple is just a maker of high-priced PC's, it will
continue to bounce from quarter to quarter with mini-profits at the end
of Intel cycles and horrendous losses whenever Intel delivers the next
big upgrade.


Rubywand