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- From: kennys@terapin.com (Kenny Sequeira)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: CWAN-APPS
- Message-ID: <kennys.31rq@terapin.com>
- Date: 1 Jan 93 20:20:34 PST
- Organization: BBS
- Lines: 81
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- I'm having a hard time understanding the logic of people continuing to
- mutter, about the need for the Amiga to have high profile productivity
- software like Word, Excel, 123, and PageMaker to be a successful computer.
- Personally the Amiga has done very well without these products, which
- IMHO shows the Amiga does not need these programs to exist as a computer
- platform.
-
- While many will disagree with my following assumptions, there is no
- market for the above products in the Amiga community now. I'm not
- saying the above programs are not good products, they just would
- not sell.
-
- Here are some of my reasons,
-
- Most good PC or MAC word processors cost $400.00 US retail or $200-$300
- street price. The three top Amiga word processors excellence!, ProWrite,
- and Final Copy II can be bought for less than $100.00. All three of
- these programs are very good programs and only lack high end features
- like outlining, automatic table generation and a few others. If Word
- or AmiPro where released tomorrow for the Amiga they would not sell in
- enough quantity at those high prices, now if Micro-Soft or Lotus would
- sell their products for $100 they might have a receptive Amiga market.
- Of course, that will never happen because, 60 million PC users would
- rape and pillage the HQ's Micro-Soft and Lotus. What the PC community
- needs is more $100 word processors, than the Amiga community needs
- $300-$400 word processors.
-
- I could take this argument in the DTP world, good PC DTP programs cost
- $700.00 retail or $400-600 street price. The top three Amiga DTP
- programs on the Amiga PageStream, ProPage, and Saxon cost less than $200.00
- and again these are very capable programs that stack up well to their PC
- counter parts.
-
- I know many spread sheets users will hate me for this one but, who
- really needs them. What PC user really needs the far reaching
- capabilities of 123 or Excel. I totally understand the need to take work
- home, but how many in the Amiga community are going to pluck down 300-400
- dollars for a spread sheet, hell I can't even understand why any PC use
- would do that. I believe spread sheets are a specialized piece of
- software that require some expertise to get any benefits of the program
- potential.
-
- When I first my got my Amiga I bought a spread sheet called Analyze for
- like $89.00, I thought I needed a spread sheet for my computer to be a
- serious user, and I fell for the hype. I took the program home and
- started reading the manual, 32,000 rows, 1800 columns, 36 formulas etc...
- after about a week, I tossed it out and found a PD program that did what
- I wanted to do with 90 % less effort. I'm not against a high power
- spread sheet for the Amiga, I just don't see much of a market for one.
- To verify this go to any Amiga user group meeting and begin to explain
- the merits of spread sheets, you will probably get these results,
-
- 1. By the end of the night you will be by yourself.
-
- 2. Huh!!!!
-
- 3. Your in the wrong meeting sir, the PC clone meeting is across the
- hall.
-
- 4. Check out this MOD, Dude!
-
- 5. Excuse me, I got to take a leak.
-
-
- Some final notes, it has been obviosly stated in this newsgroup before
- that the Amiga and PC are very different markets, accept that fact.
- If you own a Amiga and continually whine about the lack or Word,
- AmiPro and 123 for the Amiga, sell your damm Amiga and buy a PC, because
- if your waiting for PC productivity to come to the Amiga you will soon
- die of CWAN-APSS
-
- (Continually Whining About No Amiga Productivity Software Syndrome)
-
- this is a very serious illness Marc Barrett, currently suffers from this
- syndrome, and as you can see it is a very debilitating.
-
- I'm currently satisfied with all the productivity software I use, every
- task I have thrown at them, they got the job done, that's all I ask
- from software.
-
- Kenny I want a SIG but I'm somewhat shy
-