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- From: fheitkamp@desire.wright.edu
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: Will PC Makers Survive Mutimedia??
- Message-ID: <1992Dec31.135159.6383@desire.wright.edu>
- Date: 31 Dec 92 13:51:59 EST
- References: <1992Dec29.180028.13742@midway.uchicago.edu> <C01Hwo.M2z@news.iastate.edu> <1992Dec30.112544.3885@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec30.112544.3885@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu>, nwickham@nyx.cs.du.edu (Neal Wickham) writes:
- > From Jan. issue of Computer Shopper:
- >
- >
- > WILL PC MAKERS SURVIVE MULTIMEDIA??
- >
- > Conventional wisdom says a "killer application" is what's needed to drive
- > multimedia into the marketplace, doing for computers of the '90s what
- > Lotus 1-2-3 did for the PCs in the '80s.
- >
-
- Most of the PC Multimedia articles I read charge of talking about
- Microsofts Multimedia "standard" , mention Quicktime a few times
- and never mention the Amiga. Once again a pioneer in the industry
- is left in the dust like they never existed.
-
- > However, Paul Saffo, a research fellow at the Institute For The Future,
- > quipped that several killer apps for multimedia have appeared already,
- > "and so far, all they've managed to do is criticlly wound the manufac-
- > turers."
-
- Hmmm didn't mention "PC" here.
- >
- > Not only is multimedia still several years away from business or con-
- > sumer acceptance, contends Saffo, but many of the PC makers pioneering
- > multimedia today will be gone by the time the market finally does gel.
-
- ...mentions "PC", "pioneer", and "multimedia" in same sentence.
-
- >
- > Ironically, many analysts consider multimedia a huge market opportunity,
- > the biggest of any electronic technology. [Did you hear that Marc?]
- > Dataquest, for instance, prjects a 51% annual growth rate for multimedia
- > with worldwide revenues topping $9 billion by 1996.
-
- More like a buzz word oportunity. Buzzwords is what sells PCs
- right? Let me do it: "Excell" "Word" "VL-Buss" "100 mega-bits
- per second" " true-color" (what are the sound buzz words?).
- >
- > The problem is multimedia's "hybrid nature" which demands that hybrid
- > companies bring it to market, said Dataquest's Robert Corpuz. This is
- > evident by the strategic partnerships now forming amoung companies
- > such as Apple, IBM, and Sony, he said.
-
- The PC clone companies are hybrid by their very nature. No any
- one PC Clone that is mostly manufactured by the same company.
- You get company Xs video card, company Ys sound card, company Zs
- controller etc. etc.
-
-
- >
- > As multimedia becomes the melting pot for communications, computers,
- > and consumer electronics, PC vendors as we know them today will either
- > die-off or evolve into "information conduit" companies, Saffo predicted.
- > [...like cable companies?]
-
- Curriously, ignoring the Amiga again.
- >
- > In the meantime, however, computer firms bundling multimedia systems
- > are expected to enjoy modest success in the commercial and consumer
- > markets--provided the don't invest too heavily in any single platform.
-
- >
- > Standards are far from settled, warn analysts, and the market will stay
- > dangerously volatile over the next seveal years. For now buyers, and
- > sellers alike need to treat multimedia as "disposable technology" says
- > Corpuz.
- >
- > --Anthony Strattner
- > [end article]
- >
-
- Actually this articles sounds like BS from a "PC cheerleading"
- magazine. Really capitalizm playing on ignorant users at it's
- worst.
-
- >
- > Just because the PC world is a chaotic mess doesn't mean multimedia
- > won't take off! I read in the Denver Post yesterday morning that CD-ROM
- > was the big X-mas item this year. Too bad they were nearly all for
- > sucky PCs.
- >
- That's just it, the PC world is a chaotic mess and we all know
- that the only thing out there are PCs. Right?
-
- >
- >
- > NCW
- >
- Fred Heitkamp, ** Not an organization. My opinions only **
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