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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 16:42:49 GMT
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- Jeff Grimmett (jgrimm) wrote:
-
- : What are we, the Centauri Empire? "We once were a powerful empire, our
- : computers filled the store... and what are we now, eh, Meester Garabaldi?"
- : Ai yi yi, I don't like the direction this is heading...
-
- Hmmm, there WAS this handsome young man with spider friends who told me
- they could put the Amiga back on top...
-
- : >That would be like saying if, say, the Ford Motor Company went on a 5
- : >year decline and finally closed with 100 employees laid off it wouldn't
- : >be a newsworthy story.
-
- : Like it or not, that is exactly what happened again and again. Oh, it wasn't
- : Ford, but someone "not important." Of course, before they were "not important"
- : they WERE big news. How many automotive companies did we lose between 1940
- : and 1960? And how many if you throw in the rest of the world, too? I
- : personally grieve the loss of MG, but at large the world didn't care when they
- : closed shop. If they had during thier heyday, now THAT would be news.
-
- Ok, but when GM picked up, say, Buicks, the auto industry didn't say
- "Buick, what a sucky car not even worth our time." No, you hear about
- Buicks on equal time. Fine, Escom is GM and we're Buicks, but Car and
- Driver won't give us the time of day. And THAT'S wrong.
-
- : Jason, when did Zenith shut down thier American operations? It is certainly a
- : good analog to your example, that of an industry leader dropping off the face
- : of the planet, but can you tell me in what year they ceased production?
-
- No, but if I was a home electronics writer, it would damn well be my
- business to know.
-
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