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- From: crkuntz@sgiis4.sdrc.com (Shane Kuntz)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Date: 14 Jan 1996 15:58:30 GMT
- Organization: SDRC
- Sender: crkuntz@sgiis4 (Shane Kuntz)
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- In article <4d4udu$reg@natasha.rmii.com>, mdaymon@rainbow.rmii.com (Maxwell Daymon) writes:
- |> Wells Fargo Bank (wfblan@netcom.com) wrote:
- |> : I understand that they are considering aiming at the higher-end Mac market
- |> : and leaving the entry level machines to stream-line their company again.
- |>
- |> They seem to be doing very well with $3000 and $4000 machines. Maybe they
- |> are thinking it's time to go back to their high priced 'elitist' roots.
- |>
- |> I'm behind Apple, Amiga Technologies, and Be in that they are three
- |> companies that have a chance of giving up options in the future. Either
- |> one of them dying is a bad thing. I don't care HOW good Microsoft gets in
- |> the future, I want a *choice* when I buy a computer.
-
-
- I agree with this totally. The users of Apple, Amiga, Warp, 3.1/Win95/NT,
- Unix/Linux/Minix/Solaris/Irix/ETC!, and various other systems may not get
- along BUT the market benefits from having many different choices on the
- market. Do you think Microsoft would have taken so long to put out Win95
- if they had a serious competitor? Would Apple be so diligent in upgrading
- 7.5 without the looming shadow of Win95? Would the cost of Apples now
- be halfway decent without the competition from Pentiums? Would Pentiums
- be nicely priced if only Intel made the systems? Would AmigaTech be trying
- so hard to update the OS if it were still the bad boy on the block?
-
- The list goes on. I may not like or use other operating systems or
- hardware configurations but I am glad that they exist, even if I only
- care that they spur on my system of choice. Heck, if AT doesn't bring
- down the price of the new 4000T's and they shrink wrap the new OS to
- use PPC.. I'll buy a PowerMac.
-
- Competition is better for EVERYONE.
-
- If Apple is in trouble and they get bought out, I think Apple computer
- will survive. Just like the Amiga has. It might even be better if they
- do... just like I think AT/Escom is already doing a better job than
- Commodore did.. but that's not *that* hard. :) They seem to keep us
- a bit more informed of their plans than Commodore, who didn't keep us
- informed, or even seemed to care, at all. Apple may benefit from a
- stronger company that can actually make enough computers to meet demand
- and perhaps even price them more competitively.
-
- Shane
-