From: jpr@hp10.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: JUST Amiga's future?
Date: 24 Jul 92 13:41:08 GMT
Reply-To: jpr@hp10.lri.fr (Jean-Pierre Riviere)
Organization: LRI - Univ. Paris-Sud / CNRS URA 410

0In article <9220515.19576@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU>, sanford@ee.mu.OZ.AU
(sanford tong) writes:
|> 
|> 	Well, folks, i was just browsing through one of those computer
|> buyers/shoppers/etc guides at a store...you know, the ones which
|> compares
|> the latest n x86's (where n is quite a big number) and had a bit of a
|> sticky-
|> beak. I was a little bit disturbed.
|> 
|> 	Basically, they had a table, and columns with some benchmarks, and
|> other equally questionable bits of data (MIPS, Megabytes, etc) and i
|> thought
|> to myself...of boy. Beneath these numbers (eg. MIPS) was a comment
|> which
|> was something like MIPS: The higher the number, the better.
|> 
Yeah. What else could they bring forth ? Theirs clones all look alike
:-(

|> 	I really view the Amiga as being the last opportunity that the personal 
|> computer business (particularly home, nowadays) had a genuine choice. Five

Right! It's the only and *last* *different* way of computing offered to
the world!

|> 	Efficient use of resources is not important. The rest of the computer
|> is not important. All they want is a big number describing their machine.
|> 
Good analyse and well sum-up. Look, that is also the good way in the car
market ;-)

|> 	My system does what i need, and my guess is that when one considers the 
|> needs of a typical home user, even the A500 is by NO WAY obsolete for this
|> purpose. Unfortunately market lemmings know nothing of the sort, and
|> will con-
|> tinue to buy machines based on Mhz and MIPS.  They will just follow
|> the wise 
|> words in 'Computer Shopper' or something. 
|> 
Jus shoot'em up, for Amiga's sake. :-)

amiga has to prove its right value to those lemmings-in-chief : Cptr
Shopper Journalists...
How could we do that ?
Massive mail campaign ?
Any idea/clue ?

|> 	"Amiga? How many Whetstones does it do?", with a cheeky grin, radiating 
|> his self-proclaimed vast computer knowledge, and the excitement of
|> the prospect 
|> of speeding up his word-processing with all those whetstones...
|> 
Oh, it doesn't ? ;-)
|> 
|> 	Right now, i'm quietly optimistic (desperately optimistic?) that
|> something might happen. Someone appropriate at Commodore's going to
|> have to 

How true. Amstrad made big money with this approcah since 1985. C= with A600 is
only at the very beginning of realising this idea.
This will also give us those "big numbers"...
(don't forget the 24bits colorboard too)

|> realise that a lemming wants no fuss, everything-in-a-box purchase. No 
|> computerphobic is going to want to buy an A2000, then go to one place
|> to buy an 
|> accelerator, another place for a multisync monitor, here to get a
|> program they 
|> want, etc. In fact, just adding up the individual prices of add-on
|> products
|> would give them a head-ache. What they want is a full system they can
|> use at
|> a single, clean price. That's also why PCs are popular. That's why
|> it's
|> important to have an '040 Amiga, rather than depend on cards. Have
|> everything 
|> they need at one spot. Don't get the customers to shop around for the
|> parts.
|> 
Obviuously, he's not a C= staff member. too clever :-)
|> 
|> 	sanford	(quietly optimistic amiga fan who's been thinking lately)
|> 			(contradiction in terms?   8^)

-- 
  Jean-Pierre
      "Qui aime bien chatie bien."