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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 1 Jan 1996 17:20:03 -0800
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- >
- >CH> That's the real problem. If AT isn't willing to mass market the Amiga,
- >CH> then developers will always see it as a niche market and not develop for
- >CH> it because there is very little money to be made.
- >
- >Total agreement, Chris. But there's people here who have the blinders
- >on and think that the Amiga doesn't need to be mass-marketed.
-
- No, some of us DO believe that the Amiga needs to be mass marketed, just not
- right now. What the heck do they have to market? A few thousand computers
- that are, for the most part, already sold to end users.
-
- >CH> They may not be in big northern cities like Chicago but they are in many
- >CH> smaller cities in the south, places that just can't support speciality
- >CH> Amiga stores.
- >
- >That's why I said "across the US", Chris. And to be quite frank,
- >apparently businesses don't really think that Chicago, the third
- >largest metropolitan area in the US, can't support more than two Amiga
- >dealers for a population of 8 million.
- >
- >(My stuff re: Wal-Mart's illegal activities deleted)
-
- Maybe Wal-Mart is a bad idea to some, but for the most part ANY mass
- retailer working as an Amiga Dealer, nationwide, would work.
-
- >
- >Eric Szulczewski
- >ejszul@obscurity.pd.mcs.net
- >Member, Team AMIGA
- >Boycott Wal-Mart!
- >
- >
- >* Offline Orbit 0.75a *
- >
-
- Gary
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