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- From: Aldo Hoeben <io342042@student.io.tudelft.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The March Amiga?
- Date: Tue, 23 Jan 1996 15:06:26 -0800
- Organization: Delft University of Technology, faculty of Industrial Design and Engineering
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- Paul Chan wrote:
- (...)
- >
- > Getting new users:
- >
- > 1) Advertise in the press (video mags, computer mags, TV, etc)
- > 2) When the buyers come into the shop, make sure that the sale srep doesn`t say
- > the Amiga is CRAP and please look at this nice PC instead.
- > 3) Don`t call it an Amiga. A lot of UK computing folks still associate the
- > Amiga with the A500. It`s a bad association and should be eliminated by making
- > the Amiga name a smaller part of a new name that "really rocks". In other
- > words, make sure that the new netsurfing box has a cool name other than Amiga.
-
- I don't know; That wouldn't do the AMiga any good, would it? You're making a point when it comes to the simple fact that
- Amiga's have a name at being gameconsoles, mainly because of the 500. Granted. Then again, SEGA, THE SEGA (add an "m" and
- you'll have a 'GAmES' acronym) is entering the internet market. We could use that fact, sneeking in behind them.
- Wasn't it one of Commodore's earlier mistake to disencourage games from being developped for the 1000? No, this would be
- a professional machine, no games. Games saved the day later.
- Now wouldn't it be great if the surferpack would sell bucketloads, give AT a good name, money and 3rd party/ software
- developper support, so they can start making 'professional' machines too?
-
- > 4) The price has got to be good when they get to the shop with the nice
- > assistant who will help them buy their new machine.
- >
- > Easy, c`est non?
- > (...)
-
-
-
- > Bad car example. Sports Coupe owners know they have a cool, high performance
- > model. That`s the general image of the Mac. Remember that PC-TV`s are selling
- > badly because they are too high priced to fit a living room. Add the fact that
- > a back PC case as seen on most PC-TV`s is now starting to get cheesy.
-
- Ah, this might be an interesting discussion: Why doesn't interactivity work in a livingroom-environment?
- What's the problem with:
- - PC-TV's (assuming you mean PC's connected to a livingroom TV)
- - CD-i
- - interactive tv
- - and so on
-
- The livingroom is a room were people come together, behave socially. We've grown used to teh concept of a tv-set as the
- center of our social living. Typically sitting round a TV (halve-a-circle setup), we spend a lot of time, just watching
- as things go by, PASSIVELY. At most, we'll start discussing things we see, but we have never actually influenced what we
- were looking. Well, ofcourse we can 'zap'to another station, but there the problem starts: You're watching a good movie,
- but your little sister really thinks it's a dull movie. To bad she's gets to the remote beore you blink you're eyes, and
- you'll either be fighting or watching tennis the rest of the evening.
- Enters interactivity - in ONE 'PROGRAM'. Who's gonna decide how to interact? The one with the remote?
- The livingroom belongs to a family, not to a person
- The TV belongs to the family, not to a single person
- BUT the interactivity is only for ONE SINGLE person.
-
- This is why CD-i's are either not used, or moved to someone's study or bedroom, someone's personal TV. Not the
- livingroom. Interactivity is not for the livingroom.
-
- > The AT Amiga Surfer should be packaged like a mini-sgi - That`s got a high
- > image de to expoisure to the movie magazines. Design a small mini-tower based
- > around th larger sgi family, remote keyboard, tracker mouse, and you have an
- > INSTANT IMAGE! (barring any law suits from Silicon Graphics, of course ;)
- > The CDTV (Commodore's Dynamic Total Vision, remember?) was not to be sold as a computer. Heavy denial of it being a
- computer caused massive confusion about this 'thing'. No, it was a CD-player 'with that little bit extra'. CDTV failed.
- Are we not running this same risk if we would produce a settop box, that's not a computer, that's not called an Amiga,
- that's 'just settop, with that little bit extra'?
- I agree, you ARE making a point, but I'm just making the point we should be carefull with such decissions. Don't make
- what we THINK people want, make what they WANT. Don't say: "Here, use this, we know you'll like it, we studied you", but
- "Here, does this satisfy your needs?".
-
- Aldo
-