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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Attention Amiga (and Amiga to be) Users!
Keywords: NeXT, Cube, Commodore Dead, Amiga's End
Message-ID: <1990Nov7.192010.166@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>
Date: 7 Nov 90 19:20:10 GMT
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In article <1990Nov5.212543.18289@cbnewsl.att.com> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes:
>In article <212@coplex.UUCP>, dean@coplex.UUCP (Dean Brooks) writes:
>> coco@cbnewsl.att.com (felix.a.lugo) writes:
>> 
>> >	Are you tired of Amigas?, Commodore's lack of consideration for
>> >	their costumers? ...  Read this and run out and get one ... one
>> >	NeXT system that is.   8^)
>> 
	I'll probably regret getting into this. I'm not going to
argue most of the basic issues. I am going to go to one issue
that know one usually mentions. NeXT can't be profitable EVER
unless there is a miracle. There are appr. 10,000 NeXTs sold.
There are appr. 2,000,000 Amigas sold. At the prices which they
are selling new NeXTs for, which are very cheap, they can't be
making much profit. Lotus and WordPerfect may be supporters now,
but if there isn't a huge sales increase, and I mean dramatic,
they'll drop off REAL fast.
	As NeXT loses more and more money, Steven Jobs will find
monetary supporters disappearing and the corporate losses will be
paid for entirely by himself. He may keep things up for a while,
but not for that long.

	Oh, and one other thing: Display Postscript. YOU CAN KEEP
IT. Unless you have a separate display chip the speed slowdown is
too significant for my tastes.

	And oh yes, those BusinessLand models with the 68030,
they are all discontinued.
	-- Ethan

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

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