On 7/4/2014 12:37 PM, K8JHR wrote:
Right on, Ron.
And, YES YES YES, I am sure there IS more to this
than meets the eye.
I remember when Apple literally cut corners to halve the price of their
cheapest Macintosh Computer. They saved about $100 in retail price by
removing the finely molded square corners and replaced them with cheap,
easy to mold round corners that people did not notice if they were a bit
off. In the end that, and a lot of other cost cutting allowed them to
sell a computer that went for $1000, instead of $2000.
The made a lot of people who had counted on their computers holding
their value, but made far more new customers in the process.
Since everyone is guessing, MY GUESS is that they have already decided
on a new rig they are going to produce and based upon reasonable
estimates it will take 6 months from the day they start building the
factory until the first one goes out the shipping department. So instead
of holding on to a lot of old radios, and trying to keep the new one
secret, they have decided it is better to sell them off now, fulfill
some dreams, and turn stock into cash to help finance the new rig. That
way they can announce after the old ones sell out.
Geoff.
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Geoffrey S. Mendelson 4X1GM/N3OWJ
Jerusalem Israel.
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