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From: billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: 1.8 million Amiga sold?
Message-ID: <1990Sep12.180543.19745@agora.uucp>
Date: 12 Sep 90 18:05:43 GMT
References: <30013@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: Open Communication Forum
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In article <30013@nigel.ee.udel.edu> boily@phy.ulaval.ca (Edouard Boily) writes:
:
:	Dave H. wrote
:
:> 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...
:> [rest deleted]
:
:	If 75 000 Amiga owners represents about 4% of the Amiga
:community, it means that there are approximately 1.8 million
:Amiga sold, right?  How many Macs, PS2, Atari?

	Word I heard was that the 1.8 million figure was as of June 1990.
It'll be interesting to see how this Christmas season goes... :-}

:					Edouard


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