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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 4 Jan 1996 22:00:05 -0800
- Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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- Message-ID: <149409@cup.portal.com>
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- >GP> No, some of us DO believe that the Amiga needs to be mass marketed, just
- >GP> not right now. What the heck do they have to market? A few thousand
- >GP> computers that are, for the most part, already sold to end users.
- >
- >Here we go again, Gary. As I said before, what's wrong with building
- >up expectations and lining ducks up in a row? You're the one going pie
- >in the sky about AT's future plans. How about lining up a retailer NOW
- >for those machines which will be coming out soon? Or would you rather
- >have that production run sitting in warehouses waiting for SMeG's small
- >dealer lineup to get space and available cash to purchase them?
- >
- >Jesus, it takes a goddamn sledgehammer to get the concept of "future
- >planning" through your head, doesn't it, Peake?
- >
- Nope ... for all you know, Amiga Technologies is presently looking for
- and/or talking to several companies about mass retailing the Amiga. Remember
- Software Etc? That's where I saw and bought my very first C64, C128, and
- A500.
-
- BUT ... to say that they should make some predetermined announcement TODAY
- that 'in the next 6-9 months X Comapny (insert name of mass retailer) will
- carry the full Amiga computer line' would be suicidal at worst and ignorant
- at best.
-
- You do meat, I do marketing. I'll stick with my successful yet perverted (in
- your eyes) judgment. :)
-
- After all, differences of opinions is what makes this worth doing ... :)
-
-
- Gary
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