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- From: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: commodore fights back
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.1108.19061@dosgate>
- Date: 29 Jul 92 20:26:52 EST
- Reply-To: "robert buonincontro" <robert.buonincontro@canrem.com>
- Distribution: comp
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
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- * Commodore, its shareholders, its dealers, its developers, and
- its end-user base continue to have a long-term commitment to
- the Amiga and its future as a multimedia, business and consumer
- microcomputer.
-
- * Commodore (and the Amiga) is a pioneer in the emerging
- multimedia market. The company and its independant developers
- actually are helping define multimedia. Many companies say
- they are "in" multimedia without really knowing what that means.
- Commodore has a strong end-user base executing a wide variety
- of multimedia applications today.
-
- * Multimedia is not a single market or application. Multimedia
- is a method of designing and integrating computer technologies
- on a single platform that enables the end-user to input, create,
- manipulate, and output text, graphics, audio and video with a
- single user interface.
-
- * Commodore is focusing on four key business markets, for
- professional applications, in the United Sates: videography,
- professional training, kiosk information systems, and
- presentation systems. The company has significant market
- share in each of these business markets.
-
- * The company recently launched an aggressive marketing and
- advertising campaign to support and increase its leadership
- position in these four key business markets. In addition,
- Commodore is updating industry trade editors and reporters
- about the company's U.S. business strategy against these four
- key professional markets.
-
- * Commodore has added new senior management to the consumer side
- of the business. The company plans to extend current strengths
- of the Amiga into consumer channels with a variety of product
- announcements and new consumer applications during the next
- 12 months.
-
- * NewTek is a valued developer. The Video Toaster is a great
- Amiga peripheral. But the Amiga is much, much more than just
- a power supply for NewTek's Video Toaster. In fact, to say
- that the Amiga is "just a power supply for the toaster" is a
- totally wrong and misguided depiction of the Amiga. And,
- NewTek's Video Toaster is dependent on the Amiga's custom
- chip technology.
-
- * The Amiga offers the best "price/performance" for multimedia
- computing solutions available today. In addition, the Amiga
- provides "traditional" office computing applications and a
- wide variety of entertainment packages. The Amiga also
- provides options to read and write MS-DOS and MacIntosh files.
-
- * This is the most exciting time in the history of Commodore
- and Amiga computing. The company's visibility in the
- microcomputer industry should increase significantly during
- the next year as new programs, products, strategies and
- applications mature.
-
- Final Thoughts
-
- We are taking specific steps to not only regarding this incident
- but also to ensure that we regain more leverage and positive
- coverage in the general media and reporting environment going
- forward. To that end, we're planning some specific press events at
- both World of Commodore and Fall Comdex. We've also begun an
- intensive telephone contact campaign to strengthen our ongoing
- relationships with hundreds of editors, reporters, and freelancers
- who write about Commodore and the Amiga. We are committed to
- increasing the flow of accurate information to these important and
- influential media audiences.
-
- In the meantime, please help us with the impressions precipitated
- by the Robinson article; follow through on the recommendations
- we've made in this correspondence.
-
- Please consider faxing Mandi Griffies, in our corporate
- communications department, copies of any correspondence you
- generate on behalf of this effort and report subsequent media
- feedback and results directly to her. Her fax number is (215)
- 431-9465. Thank you for your concern and partnership.
-
- P.S. "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."
- -- Mark Twain, 1897
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