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- From: nmelen@nwlink.com (Barry Wilson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Refreshing Interview with Petro T. in April Amazing
- Date: 11 Apr 1996 19:18:21 -0700
- Organization: Northwest Link - Seattle, Washington
- Message-ID: <4kkehd$g0@washington.nwlink.com>
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- In article <4kj0qh$hd0@storm.cycor.ca>,
- Dennis Grant <dgrant@peinet.pe.ca> wrote:
- >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
- ^^^^^^
- Did he say anything about the impending sale to VIScorp?
-
- >crazy business he is in, and it help shed some light on the "whys" of many of
- >AT's decisions recently.
- How about "why" they SOLD-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.
-
- NOT just the usual marketing lip-service HORSESHIT? If they really believed
- why the HELL would they sell? Yeah, they really do believe, don't they
-
- >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.
- ^^^^^^
- Bill Gates is!
-
- >It's not over yet folks... :)
- ^^^
- Not yet, but soon
-
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