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From: dfrancis@tronsbox.xei.com (Dennis Francis Heffernan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re:  PRODIGY HATES AMIGA -- Says wont do port!
Message-ID: <26e31aa8-2999.3comp.sys.amiga-1@tronsbox.xei.com>
Date: 4 Sep 90 06:00:17 GMT
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	RE 'Plodigy' on the Amiga

	I used to sell Prodigy when I worked at Sears.  (I now here there's a
special circle of Hell waiting just for us...;-)  As most of the other posters
have mentioned, it's not bad for non-techies, but computer literate people 
tended to find it boring and frustrating.

	The catch here is that computers by and large only sell to computer
literate people.  If they're not computer literate when they buy the machine,
they will be soon enough, or they'll stop using the machine.  This, imho, would
apply to Amiga owners too.  I don't think it would go over so well.

	On the other psuedopod, it (or something like it) would be great for 
use with CDTV.  But I'd rather see Commodore try to shmooze GEnie or 
CompuTakeAllYourMoney$erve into doing up a graphic front-end specifically for
the CDTV.  Those services have a lot more to offer than Prodigy, if properly
equipped with a user interface designed for real people, and not technodroids.


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