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- From: jcorig@strauss.udel.edu (John Pat Corigliano)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Why I switched from the Amiga
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 01:55:25 -0500
- Organization: University of Delaware
- Message-ID: <4cakst$2jb@strauss.udel.edu>
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- In article <820489831.13686@alladin.demon.co.uk>,
- Action Jackson <ajackson@alladin.demon.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >3) Lack of User BASE. No, not the millions of Amiga Users but
- >potential market. Our Company did a Market research in UK and found
- >less than 30% of Amiga Users surveyed had Harddisks. Less than 40% had
- >memory expansion. Less than 30% MultiSync Monitors. Less than 30% had
- >more than 68020. Less than 20 % had CD rom drives. That is UK figures
- >done about a year ago. Milage may vary. Who are we going sell seroious
- >software to? A500 users? There may less Mac users but they are well
- >speced machines.
-
- This is very important. Walk through a PC software store and check out
- the requirements of the software. Most require 386+, VGA, HD, and most
- are on CD-ROM. How can you expect these programs to be converted to
- run on a stock A500? They can't! Amiga users want to spend very little
- money for a computer but also want to run all the coolest software, too.
- That's not going to happen.
-
- Then again, maybe it's a chicken and egg thing. DOOM requires 386 (but
- it's really only useable on a 486+), 265 colors, and a HD. I wonder
- how many people upgraded their old 286s and 386s so they could play DOOM
- and other games? Do people upgrade their computers to run cool, new
- software? Or is cool, new software developed because people have the
- computers to run them?
-
- Are computers a luxury or a necessity?
-
- Later,
- --
- John Corigliano jcorig@strauss.udel.edu
- Computer and Information Science University of Delaware
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