[G4] Mighty Mouse... or not

Aaron Willems aaron at macmanifest.com
Fri Aug 5 09:24:33 PDT 2005


I think Shawn hit it right on the money. Apple is a business, and it's all
about the bottom line. Smart move to make people wait on the Bluetooth
version. They already got me. We ordered two for the office, just to try
out.
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Aaron Willems
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> On 8/4/05 11:14 PM, "Ernest Vincent Pons-Worley" <eponsworley at mac.com>
> wrote:
>
>> And why Apple
>> didn't make this in a Bluetooth version beats me.
>
>>From a business/moneymaking standpoint, it doesn't make sense.
>
> Apple knows they can sell several hundred thousand of these mice to "Mac
> Fanatics" right now. Why not get $50 out of each of them first and then,
> 10
> months down the road, bring out a Bluetooth version and get $50 out of
> them
> *again*?
>
>> Maybe one's coming.
>
> It is. It's already been built. It sits in Apple's labs, just waiting for
> the right time to be released.
>
> And that right time will be when this new mouse's sales start lagging.
>
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