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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga Sales Increase according to SPA
Message-ID: <1990Nov2.202300.13472@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 2 Nov 90 20:23:00 GMT
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In article <7915@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle) writes:
>In article <1990Nov1.074322.24051@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>>
>>	For the past quarter sales of Amiga software increased by
>>34%, as compared to 27% in the MS-DOS and the Macintosh markets.
>>Sales of Unix software increased 400% and OS/2 software by 850%.
>>	Sales of Amiga WordProcessors increased by 80%.
>
>There are lies, damn lies, and statistics.

	In New York City, there are lies, damn lies and bus schedules!
>
>Increased 34% as compared to what?  The previous quarter?  The same
>quarter last year?
>
	Compared to prior year.

>What do you mean by "sales"?  Cash (dollar) amounts?  Unit numbers?
>
	I would ASSUME that it was referring to dollar amounts.
That is the most relevant figure, IMNSHO. The article made
special note of the increase in Amiga sales, calling it
'significant' I believe. Unfortunately the article is copyrighted
so I can't reprint it in its entirety.

>             Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
>           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.


	-- Ethan

Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu

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