Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cos!rob
From: rob@cos.com (Rob Clark)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Better than Advertising
Keywords: value enhancement
Message-ID: <28534@cos.com>
Date: 28 Mar 90 16:06:20 GMT
References: <5830@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>
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Organization: Corporation for Open Systems, McLean, VA
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In article <5830@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM>, brianr@tekig5.PEN.TEK.COM (Brian E Rhodefer) writes:
> ...
> Given the enormous costs of advertising, it might just be cheaper
> to eliminate the main objections many people have against buying
> an Amiga:  lack of a commercial-quality spreadsheet, and lack of
> WYSIWYG-capable document preparation.

This is it! In the recent Amiga vs. Mac vs. whatever flames, people have
been saying: "I can't understand why people would buy a Mac Plus....". 
The reason is: It probably has the right software for their needs. It has
Excel and WingZ, for example. Whatever the deficiencies the Amiga may have,
they are certainly no greater than those of any Mac, it's just that the
support isn't there to get the Amiga where it should be.

> 
> 
> 1) Hire Lotus to run their (allegedly recoded-in-C) 1-2-3
>    spreadsheet program through an Amiga compiler.
> 
Or Excel for Amiga, anybody? I suppose the problem is: How do you a get major
s/w producers interested in the Amiga? With the exception of Word Perfect,
I can't think of any other PC/Mac s/w biggies working on the Amiga.
Apple generated support for the Macintosh, so why can't Commodore?

...
> 
> 
> Brian Rhodefer


-Rob-