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- From: Gemini2@cup.portal.com (Gary Alan Peake)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: New Press Release!
- Date: 29 Mar 1996 08:40:05 -0800
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- >Gary Alan Peake (Gemini2@cup.portal.com) wrote:
- >: I keep seeing things like 'the Amiga is all about cutting corners' or Amiga
- >: Technologies needs to know that 'the Amiga is about inexpensive' and this
- >: just isn't true!
- >
- >No, amigas are really expensive considering all the corner cutting done with
- >the hardware. :) And low price points doesn't necessarily mean in
- >comparison with PCs.
-
- Again, when you buy in lots of hundreds instead of lots of thousands ...
- cheap has very different meanings.
-
- >
- >: The A1000 was NOT inexpensive when it came out! The 2000 was NOT
- >: inexpensive when it came out! I know for certain that when I bought my
- >: 3000, I could have bought two clones instead for the same price! The 4000
- >: wasn't and isn't 'cheap'.
- >
- >What about the a500 and the a1200? These are the numbers machines, the
- >ones that sell in the thousands rather than the hundreds. The amiga is not
- >about the high end and the few that own them.
-
- The A500 using 1.3 is ONE of the things that is hurting us now, along with bad
- C= management, too much PD/Shareware that is too good and should be wrapped,
- boxed and sold commercially. Until Amiga users decide they will 'upgrade'
- both their OS and their systems just like the clone users do, we will NEVER
- be in the same markets as the clone users. And until so much great
- PD/Shareware progs are boxed and sold commercially ONLY, we will never be
- able to walk into our local computer stores and buy off the shelf.
-
- >The a4000 is 'cheap', just not in price. :)
-
- Cheap to you is nice to others I guess? :)
-
- >: The Amiga isn't about CHEAP, it's about DIFFERENT!
- >
- >Only when different is better. Then it is eccentricity, otherwise it is
- >stubborness and worse. I don't place a lot of value in the rebel without a
- >cause market.
-
- This 'rebel' does have a cause! My cause is to help support Amiga
- Technologies so that when it's time for us and them to bite the bullet and
- move on to better systems, faster OS's, more commercial software ... it
- will be there for us with the same 'look and feel' that we have today!
-
- >
- >Regards,
- >
- >BM
- >
-
- Gary Peake "Mystic Meg" Fellow AMIGA Users:
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