Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Borland and NeXT? (was: PRODIGY HATES AMIGA)
Keywords: prodigy amiga hatred
Message-ID: <14244@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 6 Sep 90 17:44:47 GMT
References: <191@coplex.UUCP> <6880@vax1.acs.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <6880@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> don@vax1.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes:

>You'd think when a machine is this close to 2 million in sales, a few 
>companies might take notice...  (On a similar note, I read in a recent 
>InfoWorld or PCWeek that Borland is writing a spreadsheet for the NeXT... I 
>have to wonder about a company which writes software for amachine with an 
>installed base of ~5000 while completely ignoring 2 million Amiga users...)

I guess they figured, heck, if those foolish NeXT users are willing to pay
$1500 for an add-on floppy disk drive, just think what they'll be willing 
to fork over for a decent spreadsheet.  If we charged $2000 a copy and sold
to every 7500 NeXT owners, we'd make $15 million dollars.  To make the same
as a $200 Amiga program, we'd have to sell to 75,000 Amiga owners.  That's
only around 4% of Amiga owners, but then again, they probably aren't quite
so foolish...

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