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From: steve@digibd.com (Steve Wahl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Two Millionth Amiga Sold
Message-ID: <1990Nov29.205151.3585@digibd.com>
Date: 29 Nov 90 20:51:51 GMT
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In article <1990Nov19.054642.20169@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1990Nov19.132121.373@darwin.ntu.edu.au> 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?)
>>>                                     Jason

>>I find Americans with this kind of attitude a pain.  Are people who buy 
>>amigas but are not from the US second class or something?

>	You don't understand WHY it bothers us that 3/4 are in
>Europe. In America the Amiga is considered a joke by most
>"business/professional" people. Most people don't know Commodore
>makes any professional machines and most think that Commodore is
>going bankrupt. That won't change unless CBM can start selling
>more machines in this country. When we see 3/4 of all sales in
>Europe we worry that Commodore will treat people from the US as
>second class by giving up on this country.

>	-- Ethan

(Please - I don't want a flame war, I just want to comment)
And I wish to point out, as someone who previouslty owned an Atari ST,
that Atari seemed to have given up on the US for a year or two, and all
of their new introductions happened in Europe long before they happened
in the US. (The STe, with the 4096 color palette, comes to mind here;
I think the Stacy (portable) was out for quite some time in Europe
before being available in the US also).  This was in the comp.sys.atari.st
discussion for quite some time.  For some of us it's not an unfounded fear.

Of course, it would make us all happy campers if products were introduced
simultaneously throughout the world!  CBM has some delays, but at least
they don't seem to approach a year.

--> Steve

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