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From: dogar@motcid.UUCP (Haroon H. Dogar)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: BYTE still toothless
Keywords: BYTE ~= magazines(amiga)
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Date: 28 Sep 90 15:52:40 GMT
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davewt@NCoast.ORG (David Wright) writes:

>	We got our October BYTE the other day, and it had even less Amiga
>oriented articles than the previous issue. If there is a change coming, I
>haven't seen it yet.

>	In short, I would be willing to bet that people who own Amiga's
>are more likely to buy a general computer magazine such as BYTE than the
>average PC or Mac user, since almost all people who use Amiga's must
>have at least SOME interest in computing itself, or they would have stuck
>with an annonymous PC or a brainless Mac.

My guess is that article content is determined not so
much by the total number of people that will read the magazine, but by the
number of people reading the magazine that are of the audience targeted by the
magazine's advertisers. By this, I mean that there are far fewer mail-order
houses for Amigas (especially now) or Amiga-related products. Meanwhile,
Byte can probably safely assume that some of us who don't own PCs will also
read the magazine for its series of articles on object-oriented programming
and to see what the trends are for the future in terms of GUIs, headset monitors,
input devices such as the data glove, virtual reality, neural networks,.......

-hd