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- From: mokeefe@clover.cleaf.com (LawnMowerMan)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Conspiracy???? Something stinks folks.
- Date: 22 Feb 1996 11:29:52 GMT
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- Well world, I have pondered a certain issue for quite some time and I
- think it is time that I addressed it openly.
- I have reflected back over the past 5 years or so and considered the
- big picture of the Amiga's history. I would like to make a few points and
- see if anyone else draws the same possible conclusions as I have.
- I remember quite well the market transition of the C=64 to the C=128.
- From that point the Amiga was marketed as the next generation of home PC.
- Unfortunately, the Amiga was not taken seriously for much besides a game
- machine for the primary reason that big businesses had already invested
- tremendous amounts of money into IBM machines for business applications.
- There seemed to be no crevice that the Amiga could leverage itself into in
- order for it's potential to be displayed to the world. Although the
- machine was capable of tremendous graphics and animations, it was very
- difficult to utilize that potential. Along comes Newtek and their Video
- Toaster. Finally the tools were available to enable the Amiga to operate
- at it's real potential at an extremely affordable price.
- This was the one of the most important developments that brought about
- the advent of the multimedia and desktop publishing furor. Many very
- important and influential people and corporations began using the Amiga
- platform for these types of applications. At last the Ami had found a
- niche that allowed her the respect that she deserves. (She because I'm
- male and I love my machine and I'm not gay :)
- What we then saw in the big corporate computer picture was Big Blue's
- sales dropped through the floor for 2 years running and there was some
- major downsizing of it's corporate work force. We saw the advent of the
- infamous Windows that attempted to enable IBM's and clones to work in an
- Amiga like atmosphere. However, these machines could not keep up in a real
- work environment primarily because of multitasking problems as well as
- others.
- Commodore's stock soared in value, sales rose steadily, business
- boomed. The year after Big Blue laid off some 40,000 workers, suddenly C=
- corporate began making marketing blunder after marketing blunder. We can
- say that it was because of the replacing of top people but perhaps the
- real reason is not stupidity. Perhaps it was calculated moves.
- Within 2 years C= is teetering on the verge of bankruptcy and then goes
- over. For a year + there is bantering and hem hawing around about who is
- going to purchase the remnants of C= with technology rights. From out of
- nowhere, here comes Escom and bids a measly 12 million and gets it all. A
- company that builds and markets IBM clones and the Windows software
- platform. From this point we hear alot of promising things. Everyone's
- hopes rise, everyone's hopes are dashed to the ground. AT is introduced
- into the picture and we hear many promising things. Repeat previous
- process. :( Here in America, where the Amiga was beginning to forcefully
- take the areas of business that we find the largest amounts of cashflow.
- ADVERTISING!!!!! Because of all of these coincidental business blunders we
- have the Amiga effectively cut off from the market because of no
- availability. Meanwhile, people like Intel are furiously trying to produce
- the next generation of chips that are fast enough to do a somewhat decent
- job of emulating that all important multitasking feature. After all, for
- video production and such you need to be able to read, play, move data and
- such VERY quickly. These things the lowly Amiga excelled at. The IBM and
- clones were slow and ponderous. Even a 120mhz Pentium has to work hard to
- do what an 060 can do because of that feature.
- I guess what I'm trying to say folks is that I am suspicious of some
- sort of corporate espionage. I do not believe that people that built a
- successful business gets stupid when it comes to marketing the Amiga.
- Escom is very succesfull, so why the screwed up marketing of the Amiga. C=
- was doing very well and then oops.... it dropped the ball.
- Is there someone out there that has enough influence that can dig and
- investigate things like sudden and large cash movement in certain people's
- lives?
- I'm of the opinion that the powers that be are sitting on the Amiga
- technology until it is finally too archaic to be any competition. I could
- be wrong of course and perhaps I'm just consipiracy minded but things are
- just not adding up in all of this. Does anyone else draw the same
- conclusions and see them as real possibilities? Something isn't right
- folks!!!! I accuse no specific people. But I'm telling you, I smell some
- shit somewhere and it wasn't me that did it. Please don't flame me for the
- length of this. :)
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