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- From: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: commodore fights back
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.1108.19059@dosgate>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 20:26:51 EST
- Reply-To: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
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- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- This is Commodore's reply to the recent Washington Post article Enjoy!
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- amiga.dev/news #54, from jwiede, 7781 chars, Fri Jul 24 16:50:17 1992
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- TITLE: Commodore asks for help...
-
- Commodore is aware of the activity on computer networks in response
- to the "Amiga/Slow Death" article written by Mr. Phillip Robinson.
- Commodore wants to assure all you who are concerned that we are not
- taking this lightly, and would appreciate your help in responding
- to Mr. Robinson and to newspapers who have reprinted the article.
- Therefore, we are providing the information that follows. It is a
- version of a correspondence sent to dealers in market areas where
- the article has appeared.
-
- All of us at Commodore share your concern about this story. The
- Commodore marketing and communications staff agree that this story
- is one-sided, contains several inaccuracies, and does not
- communicate the current thrust of our emerging, dynamic and leading
- U.S. business presence in multimedia and related applications.
-
- Specific Actions And An Update
-
- We've had two conversations with Mr. Robinson since his article
- first appeared. We communicated to him all of the reasons why
- suggesting that "Amiga is dying a slow death" couldn't be further
- from the truth! We have one additional interview scheduled with
- Mr. Robinson next Wednesday (July 29th). He will be writing a
- follow-up article after the interview. The follow-up article will
- appear first in the San Jose Mercury News and then will be
- distributed through the Knight Ridder distribution channels to your
- local paper. That process usually takes up to two weeks.
-
- Mr. Robinson reports that the feedback he's currently receiving
- from the "Amiga/Slow Death" article is the heaviest he's
- experienced in the eight years of doing this column. He reports
- that some of the more virulent negative feedback has included
- threats of violence. We of course do not endorse violent feedback
- of any kind. But you can take constructive steps to channel your
- negative reaction to Mr. Robinson's article.
-
- You can help manage the negative public perception Mr. Robinson's
- article has created by taking action with your local broadcast and
- print media. Please consider doing the the following:
-
- 1) Write a letter to the editor of the newspaper that ran the
- Robinson article. Correct the record. Use some of the message
- points we've provided. Voice your strong objection to the
- one-sided and ridiculous suggestion that Amiga and Commodore
- have no future.
-
- 2) Send a copy of your letter to the editor directly to Phillip
- Robinson. His address is P.O. Box 1357, Sausolito, CA 94966
- (as printed in the San Jose Mercury News).
-
- 3) If you wish, voice your opinion to Mr. Robinson by leaving a
- voice-mail message for him at (415) 289-9498. Do this in the
- next seven days so you have impact on his follow-up article.
-
- Here are the primary message points that Commodore hopes to get
- across to Mr. Robinson. Perhaps you can include some of them in
- your letters to the editor:
-
- * Commodore is a one billion dollar company.
-
- * There are more that three million Amigas installed worldwide.
-
- * Phillip Robinson's recent article, which talks about a "slow
- death" for the Amiga, was written with no input from Commodore.
-
- * Commodore is not "killing" the Amiga. In fact, the company,
- and its developer network, currently are working on several
- enhancements to the Amiga product line. Significant product
- announcements are planned this Fall at the World of Commodore
- show in Pasadena.
-
- * Approximately 1000 dealers distribute the Amiga in the United
- States.
-
- * Commodore recently signed a sole national distribution agreement
- with Merisel, Inc., the world's largest publicly held
- distributor of microcomputer hardware and software products.
-
- * Commodore recently signed a strategic product reseller agreement
- with Digital Equipment Corporation.
-
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