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- From: jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton)
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- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 04:40:15 GMT
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- Joanne Dow (jdow@BIX.com) wrote:
-
- : >The business and technology sections of newspapers I've picked up are
- : >little more than promo machines for Microsoft and the top 4 PC clone makers.
-
- : That is just about all there is out there today so why are you surprised?
- : Newspapers print what they think their customers want to read. They think MOST
- : of their customers are PClown owners so they report about them. Why should they
- : bother to "offend" or "bore" 95% of their readership to please a fraction of
- : 1% who are interested in any non-PCoid architecture? One does not need to relate
- : all this to advertising dollars.
-
- Limiting, for a moment, this discussion to business and technology, how
- many people owned a Newton when massive coverage was given to it? None.
- How many people own, say, Vanguard mutual funds? Not a large percentage
- of the population, but certainly enough so when a new fund manager gets
- hired, it's likely to be noted.
-
- I just don't buy that this is accidental, or a demographic issue.
- Demographics are moot points when it's a new product, which I think we'd
- all agree the Amiga essentially is in the US.
-
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