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Date:         Wed, 29 Jul 1992 20:08:00 CST
From:         Lance Tagliapietra <96720919@UCS.UWPLATT.EDU>
Subject:      Re: Robinson 1, Commodore 0
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>From: David Voelker <dvoelker@LELAND.STANFORD.edu>
>Subject: Robinson 1, Commodore 0
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>Add my name to the list of those who were underwhelmed by Commodore's
>reply to Philip Robinson's column proclaiming the Amiga's death.  They
>would have done better to keep their mouths shut; their anemic response
>essentially concedes the argument to him.

Check out the latest AMReport available on wuarchive in the
systems/amiga/incoming/news directory.  An article lists all
the publications which Commodore will be advertising the
Amiga in this fall.

>     Never mind whether the machine is "dead;" that's a rhetorical
>point that people could argue all day and not resolve (are black and
>white movies dead?  Ask Woody Allen).  But who knows better than
>Amiga owners that Commodore is guilty of taking a design that was
>light-years ahead of its nearest competitors and squandering its
>potential with negligent marketing, snail-paced development and often
>indifference to users?

And where has 10 years of development got the PC?  It is pretty much
a given fact that when the PC came out, the only reason it sold was
because of 3 letters.  If any other company had come out with that
hardware configuration they would have gone out of business in a year.
Why, because other companies at that time had better, faster hardware
out, and those companies were failing because of lack of sales.

Now, ten years later people are complaining about the lack of pace
for amiga development, and lack of advertising of the Amiga.  I think
Commodore was just being smart.  How many clone manufactures are out
of business because they could not sell enough machines to meet pay
their advertising bills.  There are somethings that you can't get
across in a print ad, word of mouth and dealers can present better.
Now that people have experienced the frustration of Windows, Amiga
dealers now have language which can be used to woo away potential
pc clone buyers to the power of multitasking, and a machine which
was designed with multitasking in mind.

>     I personally would like to see Commodore's "Sic 'em, users!" strategy
>blow up in its face and result in a flood of mail from Amiga owners
>thanking Robinson for giving the machine a proper eulogy.
>     The only support Commodore has now is the blind allegiance of the
>"My Amiga, right or wrong" cheerleaders.  Wake up, people!  Haven't we
>been their dupes for long enough?

Your final comment is more for the pc/ms-dos crowd who have been "duped"
for 10 years.

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