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- From: "Antti J. Roppola" <ajr@henric.nric.gov.au>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.hardware,comp.sys.amiga.games
- Subject: AT was:Re: AT UK redundancies
- Date: 16 Jan 1996 04:19:19 GMT
- Organization: Bureau of Resource Sciences
- Message-ID: <4df907$pti@candelo.dpie.gov.au>
- References: <81F83021@cu-amiga.demon.co.uk> <wfblanDL5BDK.I9q@netcom.com> <821697004.17805@hchworth.demon.co.uk> <4ddbo6$ris@oban.cc.ic.ac.uk> <821716445.11929@hchworth.demon.co.uk> <9601152345.AA000ho@rekab.demon.co.uk>
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- Martin Leslie Baker <mlb@rekab.demon.co.uk> wrote:
-
- >AT : There is now way AT/Escom are going to sell the machine at a loss.
- > Escom have had massive aquisitions in the last year, the core business
- > of Escom has, is, and always will be PC. FACT is they will not put
- > an Amiga on the market that can compete with PC, simply because they
- > can make more money on 1 PC sale v. 1 Amiga sale. Cause Amigas are
- > expensive to manufacture.
-
- I'd say it's the reverse. AT are the *only* manufacturers of Amigas (pedantry
- aside) and there are a zillion PC clone builders. Over here the margin on PCs
- has to be pretty small if a supplier's going to sell *any* units. I suspect
- that'll be the same wherever AT tries to set up shop. Anyway, if the clone
- business is so lucrative, why would they even bother buying out C=?
-
- And with sensible design (ie CHRP) new Amigas needn't be (much) more
- expensive than P'Clones. We live in interesting times...
-
- C'ya
-
- Antti
- (Canberra Amiga User Society)
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