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- From: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu (Kelvin Leung)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
- Subject: Re: RE-MACS COST TOO MUCH (NOT!)
- Message-ID: <1992Aug29.201720.3993@dartvax.dartmouth.edu>
- Date: 29 Aug 92 20:17:20 GMT
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- bcoleman@hayes.com (Bill Coleman) writes:
- >I think you mean the same as my "why waste a mac" comment above.
-
- >> And even on the GUI is better end...Amiga has a much better interface
- >> than Mac,
-
- >NOT!
-
- >(sorry, I coun't resist)
-
- >Ahem. What specifically makes you think the Amiga UI is better than the Mac
- >UI? The marketplace would tend to disagree with you.
-
- >> and handles Multimedia in a way that makes Quicktime even more of a
- >> pathetic embarrasement than it already is.
-
- >The Amiga handled Multimedia better? In what way? The Amiga does have a leg
- >up on NTSC video handling, but not all video is NTSC, nor is Multimedia
- >confined to video!
-
- >In what way is QuickTime an embarrasement? Perhaps you are not impressed
- >by tiny little pictures on the screens of Macs. But that isn't all there is
- >to QuickTime! There's at least two different parts that are equally important:
-
- >* Component Manager - allows users to plug-in specialized multimedia hardware
- > and have it work with all QuickTime applications automatically. So if you
- > have hardware to do full-screen video, you can use it just as easily as
- > with the tiny, disk to screen stuff.
-
- >* Data Standards - regardless of your hardware, QuickTime defines data
- > standards for storing multimedia information, so various applications can
- > use real-time data. This is directly in line with the use of a standard
- > picture format for still images (PICT) This way, QuickTime applications
- > can trade information even if they have never been used together before.
-
- >If Amiga machines are so great, why is there no third party support. The
- >Mac doesn't have this problem.
-
- Pardon me for jumping in. I don't necessarily think the Amiga
- is an inferior machine. There are many reasons to the lack of third party
- support on the Amiga... let me list one:
-
- Commodore hardly ever advertised, nor does it actively recruit third
- party developers like Apple do. Remember how Mac started? Steve Jobs
- paid big bucks to Microsoft, Borland and all those companies to
- develop software (such as the good o' "Jazz"--one of the first Mac apps)
- to the Mac. Also, Jobs spent a lot of money advertising. IF you
- flip back to old issues of Byte (say, 1985)... you will see 2-4 pages
- of Apple advertisement in each issue!!! meanwhile, how many times have
- commodore advertised? none!!! pardon me, once... and that's in the
- latest (sept. 1992) issue. Therefore, the Amiga isn't as successful
- as it can be now is caused by Commodore, not because of the machine
- itself.
-
- Please dont get me wrong--I am not claiming the Mac is an inferior
- machine either--but I just want to clear up some stereotype/misconception
- of the amiga.
-
- followups to comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
-
- >--
- >Bill Coleman, AA4LR ! CIS: 76067,2327 AppleLink: D1958
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- >Disclaimer: "My employer doesn't pay me to have opinions."
- >Quote: "The same light shines on vineyards that makes deserts." -Steve Hackett.
-
- Yours Sincerely,
- Kelvin
- e-mail: abs0@coos.dartmouth.edu
-