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- From: U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl (Branko Collin)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 96 12:13:27 MET
- Organization: K.U. Nijmegen
- Message-ID: <1771DABE9S86.U249026@vm.uci.kun.nl>
- References: <81F83021@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <780173170wnr@innov.demon.co.uk> <9601170023.AA000lo@girvan.demon.co.uk> <290997094wnr@innov.demon.co.uk> <4dp0fu$dre@bandit.cyberwar.com> <19960122.7B55B70.1094B@asd05-25.dial.xs4all.nl> <17717BDC5S86.U249026 <9601252222.AA002pq@pfloyd.demon.co.uk>
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- In article <9601252222.AA002pq@pfloyd.demon.co.uk>
- Keith Blakemore-Noble <keith@pfloyd.demon.co.uk> writes:
-
- >
- >On or around Tue, 23 Jan 96, Branko Collin is alledged to have muttered
- >something along the lines of -
- >
- >BC> In article <19960122.7B55B70.1094B@asd05-25.dial.xs4all.nl>
- >BC> jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen) writes:
- >
- >BC> You're right.
- >BC>
- >BC> Look at it from a different perspective. Would Escom have approached
- >BC> the buy-out in this way if they were only in it for the Commodore
- >BC> brand name? I don't think so. I they wanted that they would have sold all
- >BC> things Amiga as soon as they had acquired it. That's the way it goes in
- >BC> the real world. Instead, they set up offices in Bensheim, made new logos,
- >BC> started producing A1200s, Magic Packs and A4000s, and are still selling
- >BC> them. These are not the things you do when you're just in it for the
- >BC> name.
- >
- >Wow. A new logo. That must have cost them a fortune in R & D and investment ;-)
- >
- >Started selling A1200s (but refusing point-blank to advertise them - definitly
- >a sign of someone who wants the machine to succeed...) and A4000s at bloody
- >stupid high prices.
- >
- >Yup, it is obvious that Escom wanted the Amiga so badly, that is why they
- >are heavily promoting it and why they have priced it aggressivly.
- >
-
- I am not saying they are doing a great job at promoting and selling
- Amigas. I say that it is unlikely that they are just in it for the
- name. The fact that there is no (read: bad) marketing doesn't mean
- they are actually trying to kill the company. There's lots of bad
- marketing out there, but I have never heard of it being used to
- terminate companies. Man, if you could prove that there is such a thing,
- you would probably win a Nobel prize.
-
- As for their marketing and priceing: I don't think AT has much choice,
- and I feel they are making the right one. Instead of trying to sell
- outdated machines now, they are trying to stay alive while designing
- modern machines for next year. Or would you rather have it the other
- way around, that they spend all their cash on marketing and lowering
- current prices and neglecting all R&D? That will surely result in
- another slow and painful death.
-
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