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From: a143@mindlink.UUCP (Ed Meyer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two Millionth Amiga Sold
Message-ID: <3897@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 21 Nov 90 12:45:43 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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> sparks@corpane.UUCP writes:
>         [...]
> I don't think he meant it as a put down to people outside the USA, but
>         [...]
> So I think what Jason was disapointed in was that because most of the
> sales were overseas from the USA, it means that the Amiga's reputation
> will continue to be poor over here, at least until we can get the
> numbers-of-units-sold-in-the-USA up a bit higher.
> --
> John Sparks         |D.I.S.K. Public Access Unix System| Multi-User
> [...]

John, in addition to being a VP of D&D, I also instruct Nightschool courses in
the Vancouver (Canada) area.  Lately there has been an interesting trend:
students are noticing that in normally MS-DOS only work areas, management is
not only considering but actually installing Amigas in place of new MS-DOS
machines -- the Bridgeboard concept seems to help a lot, along with the better
(multisync) display capabilities and the workstation concepts.

From my observations -- I've also taught MS-DOS courses as well as use MS-DOS
machines -- once people actually see realworld technical and multimedia
software availabily running on an Amiga with its proven
multitasking, people start to take notice.

Remember, surveys have show that typically 80-90% of the population are
followers and sheep.  So, you can't really fault people for doing what comes
naturally.  The fault lay in the Old Commodore style of "marketing" in the USA
and Canada -- especially when you see the more aggressive approaches taken the
non-North American Commodore-Amiga entities.

Let's, however, give credit where credit is due: the new marketing style from
Commodore-Amiga USA is having a definite impact (even the
late Berlin Wall had to come down a section at a time) and is aimed at
several leading-trend market niches.  As long as Commodore-Amiga
keeps seeking what the market wants and thence leading thereby, they
(Commodore-Amiga USA) should keep gaining ground ... time will tell.