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- From: "Bj÷rn Hagstr÷m" <orgin@medio.mh.se>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 18 Mar 1996 11:43:52 GMT
- Organization: Solace Computer Society, Sundsvall
- Message-ID: <4iji9o$i3n@fizban.solace.mh.se>
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- jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason Compton) wrote:
- >Fredrik Lundin (flundin@algonet.se) wrote:
- >: >>In article <4iciv5$l2o@fizban.solace.mh.se> "Bj÷rn Hagstr÷m"
- >
- >: >>Tell us again why we should be optimistic? :)
- >
- >: >Just read ar404. It has become more and more pessimistic for each issue
- >: >(and thinner in the material). AR will probably go the same way the swedish
- >: >amiga mag DMZ did when it got more and more pessimistic. Down the drain.
- >
- >: That's crap. If AR is getting thinner and more pessimistic, then something
- >: is not right with the world-wide state of the Amiga. Usually when I read
- >: Jasons editorial in AR I can see how he is being more optimistic than he
- >: 'really' should (or could) bother to be.
- >
- >What was wrong with Amiga Report 4.04's editorial? I expressed my
- >opinion, shared by some others who have since contacted me, as to the
- >importance of pre-announcements and hype. It was pointed out to me that
- >Amiga Tech may actually be taking this into account. After all, they DID
- >preannounce PowerPC.
-
- IMHO, if they didn't preannounce it , things would have been worse....
-
- >As for "thinner in the material", Amiga Report is on average over two
- >times larger than it was in its first year of publication, 1993. Sorry
- >if that's not good enough for you. By my reckoning, most Amiga magazines
- >are smaller than they were back then--if they're still around at all.
-
- You can fill a cow with stones to make it look bigger, but that wont't get
- you more meat.
-
- >: Jason and his crew are doing a great job with AR, please don't insult them
- >: by mentioning DMz in the same sentence.
- >
- >Particularly because at least if you don't like what I say, you've done
- >it for free.
- >
-
- Finally he answered ..
-
- /BH.
-
-