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- From: serendip@iag.net (Joseph Shaughnessy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga Walker at CeBIT!
- Date: 21 Mar 1996 04:28:06 GMT
- Organization: Internet Access Group, Orlando, Florida
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- GS> That thing looks like a black soccer ball with legs attached.
- GS> It should make a bit of noise in the media. It certainly looks less
- GS> boring than 99% of other boxes.
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- Exactly!!! No one talks about Amigas except us guys here in the choir
- (what's an Omiga??) This design will get talked about. AT needs to sell a lot
- of Amigas. It needs to be cheap, easy to use, cheap, friendly looking, cheap,
- non-threatening, cheap, powerful enough to do what the *average* user needs to
- do, cheap, distinctive, cheap, appealing to the computer illiterate, cheap,
- etc. and cheap.
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- Perhaps few remember that the original CDTV and later the CD32 were designed
- to not look like computers, but to look like VCRs, which the average idiot was
- already familiar with. It was not a bad strategy, just had little or no follow
- through on the marketing side. An advantage of the fairly outrageous shape of
- the walker is *free* publicity. It will get talked about and noticed by the
- press and the public. Looks like it could fit right on top of the VCR. It
- looks like a droid, a little starwars munchkin. Hell, they should add a little
- tuft of green hair on top too (call it a mouse mat).
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- Too many people here talk of the super Amiga they want to see. I don't need
- that kind of power. I have an accelerated 1200 that does more than one thing
- at a time and fast enough that I rarely wait on the computer for anything,
- except for the boot up time as a load a buncha stuff. I use my Amiga for fun.
- I have an IBM clone at work that does fine for word processing and
- spreadsheets and such. It is not fun, but neither is it painfull (except when
- I try to use it for fun ;-) But, enough of that.
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- AT needs to sell a lot of what they have now, to keep the momentum going long
- enough to bring out the new and better. I think the walker looks like it could
- appeal to a lot of people.
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- Shag
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