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From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two Millionth Amiga Sold
Message-ID: <589@cbmger.UUCP>
Date: 22 Nov 90 14:25:46 GMT
References: <30851@<1990Nov15> <46200145@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu> <1990Nov19.132121.373@darwin.ntu.edu.au> <3673@corpane.UUCP>
Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY)
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In article <3673@corpane.UUCP> sparks@corpane.UUCP (John Sparks) writes:
>caldwell_m@darwin.ntu.edu.au writes:
>
>>In article <46200145@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu>, jhc00614@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu writes:
>>> 
>>>      The only thing that's disappointing, is that I've heard 3/4 of the sales
>>> were in Europe.  (Is this pretty close to the figures?)
>>>      Let's hope sales in the U.S. get a boost this Christmas.  
>>>                                     Jason
>
>2> In Europe the Amiga is selling better than the USA and it has a better
>   reputation over there.

I think it's more the reputation of Commodore here in Europe. What
you experience in America is still a result of the policy of Jack
Tramiel to sell to the masses not the classes. In following this 
policy, Commodore America abandoned the whole series of serious
bureau PET and CBM computers, concentrating only on VC 20, C 64 and
the ill-fated Plus/4, C 16/116. So he intentionally cut one of his
legs to stand on, leaving Commodore with the reputation of a game
computer-only company. - In Europe things went different. Here the
series of bureau computers was kept, and in Germany Commodore dominated
this market at every time, IBM becoming the only contender. So the
differences stem from this old time, and I have learned two things
from this:
1. Once your reputation is damaged (or changed), it is really hard
   and time-consuming to overcome this.
2. Men make history.

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Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel  // E-Mail to  \\  Only my personal opinions... 
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