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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
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- Date: 24 Jan 1996 21:27:17 GMT
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- Njσl Eide (njaale@fdata.no) wrote:
-
- : FYI, Radius recently announced they have dropped producing Mac-clones
- : due to very low sales.
-
- Radius also dropped a lot of accelerators (to Sonnet) for the same reason.
-
- No, much as Newtek wasn't equipped to rescue Commodore, don't look to a
- third-party to save Apple.
-
- (BTW, Sinclair's "The Clones will save the Mac!" was pretty funny)
-
- 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.
-
- Be is the 3DO of the Apple world.
-
- 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.
-
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