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- From: jtv@xs4all.nl (Jeroen T. Vermeulen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy,comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Bought Powermac, Amiga in corner
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 96 00:34:40
- Organization: Leiden University, Mathematics & Computer Science, The Netherlands
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- References: <4059120759@news.onramp.net> <2992029077@p14.f411.n201.z2.ftn> <4jf3tn$pls@guava.epix.net> <1996Mar30.095209.53708@cobra.uni.edu>
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- In article <1996Mar30.095209.53708@cobra.uni.edu> sinclap2954@cobra.uni.edu (PETER SINCLAIR-DAY) writes:
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- > Like AT is.. At failed in their forcast to sell 10,000 A4000T in NA. Escom
- > reported a big loss caused by the Amiga which resulted in the ouster by the
- > Amiga savior the Chairman and CEO. Will the new person be committed to the
- > Amiga or let it be like Atari has done to the Jag..
-
- A big loss "caused by the Amiga"? I know you'd like that, but let's not start
- making up things. The PC market was about 10% smaller than expected this
- year--and ten percent of Escoms yearly revenue amounts to about twice their
- actual losses. Add costs of aggressive expansion that hasn't started paying
- back yet and I'd say they're not doing all that bad.
-
- I'm sure Corel is not alone in its disappointment over 32-bit applications
- upgrades lagging some 90% behind expectations. Apple's troubles I don't need to
- tell you about (from memory: $1.2 billion loss, $700 million after taxes--some
- $350 million of which due to writing off 68k hardware stock).
-
-
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- # Jeroen T. Vermeulen \"How are we doing kid?"/ Yes, we use Amigas. #
- #--- jtv@xs4all.nl ---\"Oh, same as always."/-- ... --#
- #jvermeul@wi.leidenuniv.nl \ "That bad, huh?" / Got a problem with that? #
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