Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!lavaca.uh.edu!menudo.uh.edu!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: For all you who want more advertizing Message-ID: <6854@sugar.hackercorp.com> Date: 21 Oct 90 13:12:39 GMT References: <34005@nigel.ee.udel.edu> <1990Oct20.055220.16833@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Sugar Land Unix - Houston Lines: 30 In article <1990Oct20.055220.16833@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > Commodore, as you often state is being caught up with > very rapidly in price/performance. If we cut R&D things get > worse. Also, WHAT do you cut? A 32-bit chip set? Unix? WB3.0? UNIX. UNIX is the B-2 Bomber of the Amiga. The machine is competing price- performance smack-dab into the midrange of the UNIX-on-PC market, and is priced right next to the NeXT, Sparcstations, etc.... It doesn't have a mission, and it costs a lot of $$$. But it's not needed... Commodore just needs to get a competant bloody ad agency. Hell, they could use comp.sys.amiga for the purpose and blow their existing stuff away. Floating houses? Give me a break... it's like the 1984 Macintosh ad: which worked because Apple had the two Steves and the mystique. Commodore doesn't. Show *what* the Amiga can do. Use Amigas for the ads, exclusively. And none of this kid-stuff, either: get NewTek to cut a DemoReel for the job. Christ, Apple uses Amigas internally... let that cat out of the bag. "Apple and IBM talk about Multimedia. We created it. Look at some of our customers, who've been using it while everyone else waits for Big Blue..." (flash a bunch of names on the screen, the last one being Apple. So what if most of the rest are small TV stations and PBS shows... who's going to notice?). -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .