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- From: dgrant@peinet.pe.ca (Dennis Grant)
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- Subject: Refreshing Interview with Petro T. in April Amazing
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 13:18:09 GMT
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- If you haven't already, go out and pick up the April issue of Amazing
- Computing. There is a good interview in it with Petro T. and Don Hicks, where
- such heady subjects as ESCOM's losses, the direction of the Amiga, why it is
- priced the way it is, and much more is discussed.
-
- It's refreshing in its candor. Petro is very honest and forthcoming about the
- crazy business he is in, and it help shed some light on the "whys" of many of
- AT's decisions recently.
-
- I don't want to post the interview here, as it deserves to be purchased.
- Support your Amiga publishers folks! However, I will summerise a few points
- that I pulled out:
-
- 1) AT *knows* that they have a great product. I don't mean just the usual
- marketing lip-service horseshit, they really believe in what they have.
-
- 2) The rapid advances in processsor capability in the last 2 years are
- driving everybody nuts. In the PC world, nobody can afford to build
- inventory stock, because it goes obsolete before you can move it all. There's
- so many players in the PC world that there's no margin to be made on
- machines. And if you don't make PC's, the flood of cheap, fast Pentiums (like
- the piles of excess-inventory P60's that are being dumped) are raping your
- market. *Nobody* is making money.
-
- 3) PowerAmiga is going to be a big deal. If you can hold out another year,
- the PPC Amiga release is supposed to make the same sized waves as the initial
- release of the A1000. In the meantime, it's a holding battle, trying to keep
- interest alive (and margins up) so that some marketing can get done and the
- R&D gets paid for.
-
- It's not over yet folks... :)
-
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- Dennis Grant
- dgrant@cycor.ca
- http://www.cycor.ca/TCave/
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