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- From: dmb@case.ai.mit.edu (David Baggett)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
- Subject: ADVOCACY: Re: Porky pig.
- Date: 12 Jan 1993 05:37:28 GMT
- Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
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- In article <1993Jan11.211008.13488@bsu-ucs> 01mbmccabe@leo.bsuvc.bsu.edu writes:
- >Could you be more specific?
- >Tell me how I make the ST market suck, please?
-
- I thought I was being pretty specific, but here's a *really* specific
- statement for you:
-
- 1. You don't pay for software (because you have no money).
- 2. ST developers don't make any money selling you software.
- 3. Consider a market consiting of a million people like you.
- 4. ST developers have to leave the market.
-
- That's why YOU are part of the problem. This is EXACTLY what the ST
- market is like now. How many people here have already said they stick
- with their Atari's beause of all the freeware and "shareware" out
- there? What does that say about a commercial developer's chances?
-
- >"PC people pay for software in enough numbers..." Could you say 30%
- >of the PC user market is onboard because of the fantastic piracy
- >network? I'm certain it dwarfs any such network Atari may/may have
- >had. Whatever.
-
- You're really piquing my interest here. Why don't you let me in on
- your details of the vast pirate empire for the PC? Be sure to
- cite figures for the ST market that back up your assertion. I
- want BBS numbers too -- maybe I can get some RAD NU WAREZ D00D. :)
-
- >In a couple of years, when I intend on investing in a new system, and
- >if I still have InterNet access, I'll let you know what I decide.
- >You're probably right that it won't be a 68000 machine. It'll probably
- >be along the lines of a 68040 or whatever the price/perfomance ratio
- >bears out from the market.
-
- Given this thorougly intelligent closing statement, it's clear that you
- have misinterpreted my defense of the PC as an attack on the ST. I
- have no problem with the idea that you are happy with your ST (except
- to know that you are living with something that is slowing you down).
- The point of this all was that RIGHT NOW, IF you were buying a NEW
- machine, a clone would be a very intelligent choice, simply on a
- price/performance basis. If you look at the lingering title of this
- message, you'll see that it's one Atarian's misguided assertion that
- "PC's are bad because all the software is really huge." When I pointed
- out that it's not that simple, you kicked into defensive mode and
- started telling my why your ST was a wise purchase when you bought it
- years ago. I have no argument with that. My ST was a wise purchase 7
- years ago too. (A clone would have been a wiser one, but I of course
- had no way of knowing things would work out as they have.)
-
- Dave Baggett
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