Re: .mac costs
Re: .mac costs
- Subject: Re: .mac costs
- From: Johan Yokay <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2002 12:11:08 -0700
On 9/21/02 9:57 AM, "Randolph Marshall" <email@hidden> wrote:
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Since, you did not add anything relevant to the conversation about this
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issue, then let me add some additional fact and figures:
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35,000,000 initial investment
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-5,000,000 for the 100,000 people who purchased accounts
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30,000,000 current debt that has not been recouped for initial investment
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Which means that Apple must garner another 300,000 users before it even
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begins to break even on the .mac thing.
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Lets hope that those 300,000 people sign up by the end of the year so .mac
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does not go .bomb!
You have to remember, they will no longer have the bandwidth and other
expenses they had with the free users. Plus, they don't need to recover all
of the costs of their initial investment since it was used as a marketing
expense and possibly included in hardware costs to sell more machines.
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