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From: hwr@pilhuhn.uucp (Heiko W.Rupp)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two Millionth Amiga Sold
Message-ID: <18457cde.ARN0e5e@pilhuhn.uucp>
Date: 27 Nov 90 00:05:34 GMT
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In article <1990Nov24.184010.18774@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, Ethan Solomita writes:

>In article <18415c46.ARN0e35@pilhuhn.uucp> hwr%pilhuhn@bagsend.ka.sub.org writes:
>>
>>In article <1990Nov19.054642.20169@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, Ethan Solomita writes:
        [some stuff deleted]
>>If You look in the paper, then you'll realize, that C= actions
>>augmented 2$ within last 3 weeks, so I think that more people know
>>about good/professional machines from C= than You think
>>
>       This doesn't prove anything. Commodore stock goes up and
>down like a roller-coaster. It was down at around 3-4 not too
>long ago and before that it was up to 20. What has happened
>during this time that wasn't predictable? Not a whole hell of a
>lot. Certainly not enough for the stock to drop by 80% and now to
>go up over 150%. The stock market is legalized gambling.

Yes,that's right, but when the other stocks go down and C= goes up
there must be a reason for it.

>       The bottom line is sales, and all of north america
>(including, obviously canada) contribute only 18% of total sales.
>That means the US represents a little over 10% of total sales.
>That sucks, and Commodore knows it. Hopefully they'll be able to
>bring it around.

Here in Germany they are pushing sales not only for AMIGA (A500 for
the kids to play as an intelligent shoot-and-learn toy...)
put also for PC/AT etc. with which they have been 2nd here on the
market (behind I*M) for a long time.

I think here in Germany AMIGA is well-liked by the kids who don't
want to learn how to start a game (or even serious things) from a CLI,
but who want to play.
On the other hand it's used by publicity and tv -experts, but you
don't see them in offices because there is no really good wordprocessor
(like MS-Word on MAC) (C= shouldn't you do anything)

For my part I like my A1000.

-Heiko


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