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- From: sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
- Message-ID: <1996Jan28.102928.52086@cobra.uni.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 96 10:29:28 -0600
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- Organization: University of Northern Iowa
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- In article <fulldog-2701960324160001@167.114.251.14>, fulldog@tag01.acnet.net (Victor Vargas G.) writes:
- > In article <4e687l$677@flood.xnet.com>, jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason
- > Compton) wrote:
- >
- >> Apple has "Commodore" written all over it. Nobody trusts the management,
- >> no projects are being completed, and key personnel are leaving to start a
- >> new company and do things the right way.
-
- What projects are you referring to?
- ?
- >
- > 'To commodore': the action of destroying your own, superior product
- > through null marketing, bad financial decisions and sheer stupidity. As in
- > 'Apple has been doing its best to commodore the Macintosh, and it now it
- > seems they'll succeed' :^\
-
- Apple is no Commodore. Sheesh..There are no simmilarities.
-
- >
- >> Be is the 3DO of the Apple world.
- >
- > Seems that Tim Jenison and Montgomery (was he?) carried the 'Amiga curse':
- > the Amiga failed to evolve from its video/animation niche, the Lynx
- > handheld they made for Epyx and then Atari 'marketed' lost to the GameBoy,
- > and the 3DO they designed seems to be ready to get sinked by the
- > Ultra64/Playstation/Saturn wars...
- >
- >> I've got no love lost for the Apple platform. It's not my thing. But I
- >> firmly believe that the more choice there is for mainstream computer
- >> users, the better off computing is in general. The Amiga isn't back at
- >> the point that it's a viable mainstream choice--because except in Europe,
- >> you can't FIND it anywhere. Apple is the placeholder, and token
- >> non-Microsoft choice. They need to at least hold out for the next
- >> generations of Amigas and other platforms--if they're successfully
- >> brought to the mass market.
-
- He he he he..Please...Apple is not going out of business.
- >
- > I've been using Amiga, Macintosh and (when I had no choice) Windows for
- > the past 6 years, and while I would love to use the Amiga for everything,
- > I've had to use Macs for my DTP needs, and lately, for Web authoring and
- > graphics manipulation. For animation, Lightwave/Imagine/Scala on the Amiga
- > can't be beat and I use them everyday. But everytime I had to choose
- > between PC/Mac, I didn't even think: Mac is a far superior OS than
- > Windows. For me, it will be a great loss if Apple goes down, since I'll
- > have to ditch all the training and experience from the Mac and start to
- > get aquainted with the vagueries of .dlls, Himem, QEMM, IRQ conflicts,
- > 8-character filenames, the need of 18 Mbs of RAM just to be able to write
- > a letter and format a disk at the same time...
-
- Apple is not going under. If for some reason Apple HQ is struck by lighting,
- the torch will be passed onto PowerComputing..
- >
- > Apple got greedy, they started licensing those clones two years too late,
- > so now they're going to pay the price... their PowerMacs are great, but
- > still too expensive, so people saw relatively cheap Pentiums and went
- > away... and they got also complacient, while PCs started coming out with
- > graphic accelerators and 3D boards...
- >
- > It seems that after all, there wil be just two left: the Windows
- > 'standard', and the 'alternative' OS, the Amiga... things are REALLY gonna
- > be interesting soon... who would have tought that the Amiga would be the
- > one to end up against the Big Brother (remember Apple's '1984')?
- >
-
- Lets see, Apple had the best period of Mac sales in their history.
-
- >
- > Victor Vargas
-
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