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From: WHE46@ccvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: not good news
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Date: 16 Oct 90 07:47:40 GMT
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   The new MACs are definately trouble for Commodore.  The original
MAC II was trouble for Commodore, and it cost over three times more than a
similar Amiga system.  The new MAC LC brings the same capbilities as the 
MAC II for less than the price of a similar Amiga system.  It is the
Amiga that is the more expensive one now, and unless something drastic
is done soon, the Amiga is in big trouble.  Commodore did not exactly
succeed against the MAC II when it cost more than the Amiga.  Commodore
will NOT succeed against the MAC II now that it costs less.

   This situation reminds me of the John Deer commercials in which a
bunch of company employees are touting the capabilities of John Deer
tractors, with the executive asking "What are we going to do about it?"
In this case, Commodore is the one looking at all that the MAC IISI and
MAC LC can do, and asking "What are we going to do about it?"  I
don't know what Commodore is going to do about it.  Like the pathetic
company in the commercial, Commodore is in a rut that I don't think
they will EVER emerge from.  They now find themselves producing systems
with weaker graphics than any other system in the industry, at higher
prices than most of these other systems.  What is Commodore going to
do about it?  Like the pathetic company, they will probably try some
hacks to improve their products, like non-standard video hardware with
clunky new OS hacks to attempt to get it to work with a few programs.
This won't stand up well, though, against the MAC which has totally
standardized, superior video, with an OS that has had device-independent
video from day one.  "What are we going to do about it?"  Go out of
business, I guess.

                               -MB-