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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Does reading this gr
- Message-ID: <C05vuG.Ito@news.iastate.edu>
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <3131120a6e@ofa123.fidonet.org>
- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 06:11:04 GMT
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- In article <3131120a6e@ofa123.fidonet.org> Aric.Caley@ofa123.fidonet.org writes:
- >> Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- >> From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- >> Message-ID: <C022t9.B9G@news.iastate.edu>
- >> Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- >>
- >> The fact also is that many Amiga owners in the U.S. don't give a rip about
- >> Europe, Bosnia, or Swaziland. If the Amiga is not strong
- >> here, support is not
- >> available here, and hardware and software are not available here. These are
- >> enough reasons to dissuade a person from ever getting another Amiga.
- >
- >And if people in the states never buy Amigas, there will never be support,
- >because there wont be anything to support. Its the old chicken and egg
- >problem.
-
- A few years ago, when the Amiga was strong in the U.S. and the Atari ST was
- very weak, with the situation almost reversed in Europe, did you blame the
- ST's weakness in the U.S. on the people here? No, you blamed it on the
- company behind the ST: Atari. After all, the ST's weakness was based solely
- on Atari's inability to give the ST up-to-date hardware and OS software, and
- market the machine here. Yet now that the Amiga's situation is the same
- here as the situation of the Atari ST was a few years ago, you take a
- different track and blame it entirely on the people over here for not buying
- enough computers. What is so different between the situation of Commodore
- today and the situation Atari was in a few years ago?
-
- >You are doing nothing but ensuring that support never develops here, by
- >attempting to dissuade people from buying Amigas. Luckily in Europe,
- >people buy Amigas anyway. Luckily, I dont think you are having any
- >meaningfull effect here in the states either (much less a beneficial
- >effect). The Amiga just faces much stiffer competition here, and a much
- >more stuborn and resistant to change market.
-
- People over here are just more inclined to use computers as tools instead
- of toys. To this end people here are more insistant on buying a computer
- that has good software support for it.
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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