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- From: aa754@freenet.durham.org (Robert Andrachuk)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: A1200 Surfer and A1200 in the US and around the world
- Date: 29 Feb 1996 01:41:46 GMT
- Organization: The Durham Free-Net
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- On 26-Feb-96 03:37:13 John Marchant remarked:
- > In a message on 14-Feb-96 02:52:06, Robert Andrachuk wrote:
-
- >> 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.
-
- I believe that there is far more than meets the eye here. Unspoken
- agendas are controlling the situations we are experiencing. Even I
- as a dedicated user to this platform have my own agenda which may
- not be in sync with the corporate agenda. Unfortunately, undue
- advantage is being taken with the very people who have kept the
- Amiga alive and worth reintroducing. Actions always speak louder
- than words, and reluctantly I am beginning to feel as though I have
- been "twice burnt".
-
- Much has been left unsaid about the deplorable Commodore situation.
- We are not all so ignorant and naive as to believe that incompetence
- was the sole or primary excuse for the attempted assassination of
- the Amiga platform. The pressures on, and motivations of, Escom/AT
- are not being shared. Escom is walking a very fine line here.
- We are on the edge of a dramatic change in the computer industry
- which means that a company must not invest in the past but prepare
- for this change. How does Escom do that without alienating the
- Amiga community?
-
- I apologize for being so cryptic here, however the volatility of
- the situation demands that everyone keep an open mind. I suppose my
- beloved Amiga will be evolving as well. I just hope that it will
- be the springboard to greater improvements.
-
- > 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.
-
- No large corporation is so ignorant as to assume that demand is
- created after product is produced. Product is only produced in
- response to the created or existing demand. If no one knows about
- the product and there is no effort to advertise, there will be no
- demand and consequently there will be no production. So then
- exactly what is your agenda SMG/Escom/AT??
-
- As I've said before, unfortunately as the current situation stands,
- it is the North American market which will control the viability of
- any computer platform. To ignore this market is to be marginal at
- best.
-
-
- Regards,
- Robert Andrachuk
- aa754@freenet.durham.org
-