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From: wayneck@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Wayne C Knapp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga outclassed
Message-ID: <5896@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
Date: 26 Mar 90 18:55:00 GMT
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In article <1990Mar25.235816.15660@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
  
> 	There are currently over 1,500,000 Amigas in the world,
> selling at a rate of around 500,000 per year. Every quarter for the
> past year, sales of the Amiga were greater than the year-ago quarter.
> Most of those sales are, admittedly, in Europe. However, there is no
> possibility of the Amiga being an orphan in the next few years.

*** Warning Mild Flame below ***

This is from one of the guys upset with people spreading rumors.  I don't
know what the actual sales figures are, but I really doult that the rate 
is anywhere near 500,000 a year.  I would bet that is more like a goal of
Commodore's.  If there were that much growth you wouldn't be seeing the
shake-out of so many Amiga companies and the wouldn't be so many changes
taking place in Commodore.  Prehaps Commodore is selling 500,000 computers 
a year, but I would be really impressed if more that 300,000 Amigas are
being sold a year now.  PC clones and C64 series computer are bound to account
for a fair amount of the sales. 

1,500,000 and 500,000 a year would be outstanding and very exciting.  Clearly,
considering all the recent problems these numbers are likely inflated.  So
Ethan what is your source of numbers?  If you know some real hard facts that
the rest of us missed please share them with us, Amiga developers could use
some good news right now.

                                          Wayne Knapp 

P.S. My guess would be 1.2 million world wide with a growth of 200,000 a year.
Plus I would beat that at least 25,000 are year being retired.  However, these
are based on my feelings of fuzzy facts.  This is not intended as a rumor just
my opinion.