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From: bleys@tronsbox.xei.com (Bill Cavanaugh)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Commodore & Universities
Message-ID: <26ad1876-25a2.1comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 25 Jul 90 06:00:21 GMT
References: <12415@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
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Jeffrey Hensley says:
>Will you ever stop ranting about marketing strategies??  I am really 
>getting sick of all this nonsense.  Gee. I am really upset, because
>FORD is losing part of their market to CHEVY.  I own a Ford, and they
>really should market their vehicles. (Irony, for those who don't get it --
>how many of us get upset because our brand of microwave isn't the most 
>popular one on the market???)


You're missing the point, Jeff.  If the Taurus doesn't sell, Ford will make
a different car.  They make more than one model, and they can afford to eat
the loss.  The Amiga (or any platform) is a unique animal...  If Commodore
stopped selling them, the company would be in serious trouble, which would
hurt user support.  The vendors would consider it an obsolete machine, and
stop carrying software/hardware.  The developers would realize that if no
vendor carries their applications they won't make any money, so they'll stop
writing them.  Computing as we know it would cease.  Amiga sales have a
direct impact on our lives, unlike any other appliance in the house...

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