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Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - July 25, 1995, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press 1 internet is Shane 6977308 email the computer Page 9878380 18005481991 for personal corporate wow publishing and i systems consulting Cal Tho Apple ceo july 1995 by Tom Abate san Francisco examiner pounding the table to drive Home his chief executive officer Michael Spindler said Apple computer want going Down the want for Sale and would gain Market share this year despite the hype surrounding the new operating system from Microsoft come dont count this thing Spindler said at the close of an often emotional 80minute ses Sion with reporters at apples Cupertino among other an often visibly agitated Spindler Dis missed rumours of a pending acquit the company is not for at one Point he compared buy ers of cheap pc clones to Lem mings who walked into retail stores and got a Box with a Moni Tor on it where you get who has rarely faced the press since taking Over As ceo in june scheduled the event to 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authorized applies from set up fee and monthly fee not included monthly fee includes 6 hours of free use per Well show you the its he also trumpeted apples biggest Success during his tenure moving most Mac computers to a fast new microprocessor called the but looming Over the polished wooden conference table where the German born executive faced reporters was the Shadow of win Dows the new Microsoft operating due out promises to give pc owners Many of the use Friendly features that once differentiated the and Given that the Clunky version of windows has far outsold the Mac operating go marketing even Apple fans have wondered apples new inner Circle How the computer for the rest of in recent Apple exec us will survive Microsoft com Tives such As Ian Diery and Frank ing Seiji Sanda have either resigned or to counter windows Spindler been shoved aside As Spindler has promised to mount a guerrilla mar steered the company toward a new keying Campaign inside the retail strategy for boosting Market stores where Consumers expected to come with Cheque books and charge cards ready Dur ing our Job from a marketing Point of View is to intercept them with our said Dan apples senior marketing exec pm user Nas who sat at spindles a instead refocused the company on visible Symbol of his to multimedia apples portion of the world wide pc Market has dipped to per cent from its 1992 Peak of 10 per backing away from a previous policy of broadly licensing the Mac operating system to give Apple a greater Spindler has authors and Here Apple already has More than 60 per cent of the Market and can arguably command a Premium for its presumed Spindler took questions without accepting responsibility for not building enough computers last Christmas when Consumers found macs in Short last year we were obsessed with making the Power Mac transition we missed the boat on Spindler promis ing to have enough macs this Fri l i r i a v j fax of caught in the net Daryl Robbins takes a break from surfing the internet at could surf the net All Day and not get bored is part of a a Coffee who says he growing group of people becoming addicted to it software produced with girls in mind by Andy Grieser fort Worth Star Telegram Houston in the world of computer boys Are expected to storm the enemy coast or fight off alien girls Are left that Laura gropes Groppe is president girl games a Houston firm that designs computer games for preteen to teenage the for Mer film producer and director is an Oscar Winner and also has won awards from the Sundance film festival going from film to software int As dramatic a leap As it Groppe i looked at the next generation of entertainment and what that and that clearly inter Active she said it seemed Clear that to explore that exponential growth was the Way to but girls dont always want to spend hours reducing demons to bloody splotches a la Groppe focus groups con ducted by girl games in schools around the United states have shown aside from limited portions of theres no software on the Market that appeals specifically to Groppe has no children of her but 12year old Niece Alexis Crow participates in the focus groups and keeps her aunt updated on whats we tend to hear things myst looks Cool or i liked a specific Puzzle in the seventh Groppe subjects often theres nothing out there for or complained about the girls dont play games the Way Guys she boys tend to find specific tasks or where girls interests Are More spread girl games first software pack being will be available this its an activity Centre that includes a profiles of successful a personality analysis test called the puzzler and test your the next projects Are an Asye untitled mys Tery game written by Joan a Houston author of Chil Drens mystery and an on line area specifically targeted at according to girl women Are quickly becoming More influential in a greater percentage of women than men Are buying personal computers women Are the primary pc users in 30 per cent of american 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