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- From: lee@insync.net (Lee)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Amiga promotion in USA.
- Date: 2 Jan 1996 09:48:32 GMT
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- >Joanne Dow (jdow@BIX.com) wrote:
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- >: >The business and technology sections of newspapers I've picked up are
- >: >little more than promo machines for Microsoft and the top 4 PC clone
- >: >makers.
-
- >: That is just about all there is out there today so why are you surprised?
- >: Newspapers print what they think their customers want to read. They think
- >: MOST of their customers are PClown owners so they report about them. Why
- >: should they bother to "offend" or "bore" 95% of their readership to please
- >: a fraction of
- >: 1% who are interested in any non-PCoid architecture? One does not need to
- >: relate all this to advertising dollars.
-
- >Limiting, for a moment, this discussion to business and technology, how
- >many people owned a Newton when massive coverage was given to it? None.
- >How many people own, say, Vanguard mutual funds? Not a large percentage
- >of the population, but certainly enough so when a new fund manager gets
- >hired, it's likely to be noted.
-
- >I just don't buy that this is accidental, or a demographic issue.
- >Demographics are moot points when it's a new product, which I think we'd
- >all agree the Amiga essentially is in the US.
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- It is more like; Newspaper people don't even understand PC's worth a damn.
- You expect them to know about "TWO" computers?!?!?! :-)
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- Lee
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