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- From: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A1200 Surfer and A1200 in the US and around the world
- Date: 25 Feb 1996 22:37:13 GMT
- Organization: Gnome's Steamware
- Sender: gnome@mag-net.co.uk (John Marchant)
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- In a message on 14-Feb-96 02:52:06, Robert Andrachuk wrote:
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- > Why do IBM/MicroSoft/Intel continue to advertise when they
- > already have a captive market? To gain new buyers, that's why. Do
- > SMG, AT/Escom believe they can sell a product without recruiting new
- > buyers? Even a year after the Amiga technology has been
- > revitalized, there are still no machines in North America and no
- > desire to advertise. Remarkable.
-
- While I agree entirely with this, I suspect that production is the big
- problem. It's no use advertising goods you can't produce in sufficient
- quantity. It's pretty incredible that AT have managed to produce as many
- machines (in Europe) as they have, given the chaotic situation they
- acquired. And the current prices seem to bear out their contention that
- they had to pay over the odds to get production started within the time
- they did.
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- I'll withdraw these comments if there is no improvement in production,
- and no sensible advertising in North America by June this year. There
- were quite a lot of full-page ads by distributors in the UK computer
- magazines in the past 2 or 3 months: for example in Amiga Computing and
- Amiga Shopper. But this month I can't find any - just a few small box
- ads among a lot of hardware & accessories. My guess is they're having
- difficulty obtaining enough machines. A dealer friend tells me the
- new 1200 is selling as fast as they come in, but he doesn't get many.
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- John
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