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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Can AT Surfer compete with Apple/Disney?
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- Date: 19 Feb 1996 21:13:52 GMT
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- Dave Haynie (dave.haynie@scala.com) wrote:
-
- : >Cable has a 30% market penetration in the US. Cable's not very
- : >expensive. A lot of money has gone into putting the current coax cable
- : >structure in.
- : The cable modem can easily be made attractive. For only a little more
- : than you pay your ISP today, you get a cable modem ($2/month or
- : some-such) that Ethernets into your computer. You have an unholy ton
- : of bandwidth (at least until all your neighbors get signed up), and no
- : phone charges. You get to laugh T1s (not too loudly, of course, since
-
- I have a feeling they'll find a way to charge for that sort of access on
- a usage basis. Meaning my ISP is a better deal...
-
- : >People aren't going to buy totally new technology more often than they
- : >buy cars.
-
- : The average Joe, probably not. Me, I buy a car every 6-8 years unless
- : it dies before then. I buy a new computer or major piece of one at
- : least once a year, not to mention other high tech items (TV, stereo,
- : audio, synthesizers, etc). If a cable head office can find 1000 or so
- : guys like me in their customer base, they could very well make another
- : $250,000-$500,000 a year off the cable modem idea. And it's a pretty
- : sound technology -- the modem to computer link is the real limit today
- : (most folks aren't putting 100Mbit/s Ethernet in their homes).
-
- But if they can make $2.5 million with existing technology for the same
- investment, they'll do it. Amiga software development could be
- profitable for a company, but PC software development is MORE profitable
- with the same resources.
-
- And yes, we know you're not the average Joe. Technophiles may leap on
- something like this, but that's often not enough to carry a technology.
-
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