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From: okay@tafs.mitre.org (Okay, S J)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:Blowing their cover
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Date: 15 Nov 89 03:00:39 GMT
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>From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli)
>In article <3719@nigel.udel.EDU> okay@tafs.mitre.org (Okay S J) writes:
>
>> But Tom, wouldn't it be great if one day PC Ragazine changed its name to 
>> AmiMagazine and there were hundreds of glossy ads advertising Amiga 
>> Clones?? The Woz selling apples(i.e. Delicious, not Macs) on the streets?
>> >
>> >:-)
>> >
>> >-Tom
>> 
>
>Noooo!  Then *EVERYONE* would know about the Amiga and C-A might
>actually turn a bigger profit and be able to spend more on developing
>new OSs and machines and ... I guess you missed my smilie or you just
>forgot to include one yourself :-)
>
[asstd .sigs deleted]
True....and heres something else to chew on:
Remember when the Mac first came out and everybody was calling it "insanely 
great" and yuppies started saying "cool" and "neato" again?
When was the last time you heard that??--When was the last time you heard 
anything about the Mac that contained the word "creative" or "fun" ?
--Want to know why those words have been dropped in the Trashcan and 
double-clicked on? For the simple reason that the Mac became popular and 
"accepted"...suddenly all the brain-dead yuppies had to have one for their 
company's DTP work. Then they started using spreadsheets on it, then 
databases..then accounting software, etc. Suddenly, everything that made 
the Mac a "neato" machine was squashed out of existence and the words 
"financially sound", "compatible", "conforms to XXXXX standards" oozed up 
from the MS-DROSS pit and the Mac was now The Computer For The Rest of Us
Well-Heeled Execudroids. Magazines that once catered to the 
programmer/hobbyist now have "Spreadsheet Shootout --We pick the top 3"
plastered across them and you can't slog through a page without the phrase 
"Office Workgroup Solutions" splattering you in the face at least 3 times.

This is what is ahead for our beloved Ami. Not a pretty thought ehh??
The day Amiga World and Transactor blather only about A-MAX and how 
compatible the Ami is with all the 2nd class machines that have been left 
behind is the day I find a new machine....

---Steve
(too tired for a .sig but you can be assured that these are only my 
thoughts, if even that)