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- From: barrett@iastate.edu (Marc N. Barrett)
- Subject: Re: Advertising Campaign
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- Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, IA
- References: <mkane.0gea@vsbbs.UUCP> <1993Jan23.155728.24566@camaro.uucp> <1993Jan26.032958.9161@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 18:40:00 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan26.032958.9161@wam.umd.edu> davereed@wam.umd.edu (Michael Robert Bromery) writes:
- > Well, while a good representative from Commodore is here, I would like
- >to ask a question that I only want John Campbell to answer, please.
- > The good news is that I'm starting to see a lot of new things for Amiga
- >come out recently. It seems like the magazines, mainly Amiga ones, are
- >beginning to have more and more things to talk about. I was wondering how
- >the U.S. advertising campaign is comming along. I haven't seen any
- >commercializing done for years. The wierd part is that I see loads of
- >potential to hold an even tighter grip on the U.S. market by turning people's
- >heads to see a new commercial. I understand that preparations on this stuff
- >takes time, and see a reason to want to wait for significant AGA titles to
- >be released first before telling the world about it.
- > It seems more and more that the reason more U.S. citizens don't have the
- >machine is that they don't know about it. I got my machine from word of
- >mouth and just decided to try out his amiga for a while to see what it was
- >like. I can say I was kind of lucky, for Maryland maybe one of the states
- >with the fewest amiga owners in it. Apparently, other cities in Maryland
- >seem to have more fellow owners. It was just that the major cities I was
- >in didn't have many.
- > Operating systems under 2.0 and up seem to feel much more professional
- >than the 1.x rom machines and now, only 2.0 and up is being sold. I'd figure
- >the AGA machines and A4000s would sell more here than anywhere else because
- >of the demand. People here don't hardly want a system without a harddrive.
- >People here would increase the AGA-HD market so high that the software
- >designers will be very interested in coding more and more with support for
- >those systems.
-
- There is one big thing that is holding the Amiga back from being a
- success, and that is the available software. As Apple has shown, people
- are more than willing to pay more for a slower, inferior system if the
- system looks good, is easy-to-use, and can do what they want it to do (read:
- run the software they want to run). The Amiga still does not have adequate
- software, which is why I have been advocating the development of a 'works'
- package for the Amiga that would contain the most important productivity
- programs in one package, included with some Amiga systems.
-
- Commodore has put lots of effort into maintaining the Amiga's market
- share in the multimedia and video markets, but these markets are small at
- best. I feel strongly that the potential increase in sales from the
- development of a good bundled works package could be many times larger than
- even the best possible increase in sales that Commodore could get from
- something like AmigaVision Pro. The Amiga is currently trapped, if you
- will, in the multimedia and video markets, and a mainstream works package
- might allow them to break out of it.
-
- As for how this packaged could be developed, I think a port to the Amiga
- (with enhancements) of Berkeley Softworks' GeoWorks package would do nicely.
- This company has worked with Commodore before, and might be pursuaded to
- work with Commodore again, if they could be convinced that they could make
- money on it. The people at Berkeley Softworks are also not as tied into the
- IBM clone mentality, and now how to develop software that multitasks well,
- so I think they could do the port nicely.
-
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- | Marc Barrett -MB- | email: barrett@iastate.edu
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- "I suppose if I had two X chromosomes, I'd feel hostile too."
- - Calvin (of Calvin and Hobbes)
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