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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future
- Date: 27 Jan 1996 19:00:11 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- >>>The surfer package is something that`s eminently better as a black box with
- >>>infrared keyboard - sound like something from an AT press release?
- >>>It should cost no more than a Saturn with Intenet add-on. ie in the UK no mo
- r
- >e
- >>>than 399UK pounds.
-
- Not for that price.
-
- >>Amiga Technologies has a plan that may not fit every user in the user base.
- >>BUT, getting new users should be top priority right now. If we all wait for
- >>PPC cards and the PPC Amiga, they will still have us in the future. And if
- >>AT can sell enough 1300's and 4000T's now, then the perfect upgrade path
- >>will be to the PPC. It's a simple looking plan to me? I can't understand why
- >>it's so darn hard to grasp for others.
- >
- >Getting new users:
- >
- >1) Advertise in the press (video mags, computer mags, TV, etc)
-
- They are doing 'some' of this in Europe.
-
- >2) When the buyers come into the shop, make sure that the sales
- rep doesn`t the Amiga is CRAP and please look at this nice PC instead.
-
- Then, we need to keep them out of Escom Stores!! The Amiga should be sold
- thru any outlet that will take enough production to make it worthwhile. I
- don't care if that's Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Comp USA, local dealers, hobby
- shops, or the local Stop-N-Rob's!
-
- >
- >3) Don`t call it an Amiga. A lot of UK computing folks still associate th
- e
- >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.
-
- This is PURE rubbish! The Amiga has a good name. C= has a bad name! As far
- as the 500, wht was so wrong with it? I'd bet almost a million people would
- tell you different? :)
-
- >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.
-
- The price has got to be reasonable to the people buying them. That's a
- relative number depending on each person's needs, capital, and personal
- desires.
-
- >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 ;)
-
- And, of course, you'd want that priced at $199.00 US? :)
-
-
- >>The 'right price' is whatever price the production can be sold at. Lot's of
- >>people pay full sticker for an Infinity and it ain't that great of a car!
- >>Not $60,000 worth anyway.
- >
- >No. The right price is under 299, or it`ll never become a mass market product,
- >and Saturn, Philips, Oracle, et al will start to take over with their high
- >price marketing campaigns.
- >
-
- Gary
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