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- From: mwm@contessa.palo-alto.ca.us (Mike Meyer)
- Subject: Ports and Software companies (Was: I found a pirate - what shall I do?)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
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- References: <1992Nov5.152511.12182@city.cs> <Bx93tw.62C@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu> <OAHVENLA.92Nov6215423@lk-hp-7.hut.fi>
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- Date: 6 Nov 92 16:54:22 PST
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- In <OAHVENLA.92Nov6215423@lk-hp-7.hut.fi>, oahvenla@snakemail.hut.fi (Osma Ahvenlampi) wrote:
- > Every serious software company know about every possible platform.
-
- "Knows about" is _not_ the same things as "understands" or "has a good
- knowledge of". While the former may be true, my experience in trying
- to sell Mac/PC software companies the Amiga technology they need for
- their product (i.e. - I've done the hard part of the software port) is
- that they know the Amiga exists, but don't know _anything_ about the
- market. Questions like 'Is there an "Amiga World", similar to "Mac
- World"?' are common. They don't know anything about the hardware, or
- what shows exist, or how many machines have been sold, etc. And unless
- someone prods them, they aren't going to look.
-
- > Software companies do not evaluate platforms, they
- > consider whether it would give them more money to sell their product on a given
- > platform than it would take to develop, support and advertise it for that
- > platform.
-
- You've just described "evaluating a platform". That's what happens
- after someone prods a company to look at the Amiga market. No Amiga
- products is what usually happens after that.
-
- <mike
-