Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!uunet!cbmvax!cbmehq!cbmger!peterk From: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga. Message-ID: <629@cbmger.UUCP> Date: 11 Dec 90 09:42:57 GMT References: Reply-To: peterk@cbmger.UUCP (Peter Kittel GERMANY) Organization: Commodore Bueromaschinen GmbH, West Germany Lines: 36 In article WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) writes: > one question >always pops into my mind: why should these magazines mention the >Amiga? Because there is also a competition between magazines. And one good argument for a magazine is that it shows COMPETENCE. If the magazine and its writers show that they know the state of the art then they are much better at comparing and judging. And to not mention the Amiga in articles about Multimedia simply shows the ignorance of the writer and the editors, they plainly DON'T KNOW what they write. THEY'RE DUMB. And you might conclude that such dumbness not only appears regarding coverage of the Amiga. I suspect that in such magazines also other very important topics are forgotten, because those dumb authors don't know about what is going on in real life. They are computer illiterate. So one should write them and give them a hint that they should improve their computer knowledge reasonably, because else they could be subject to lose competition in this market. > Remember that the Amiga is NOT a serious influence on the computer >industry, especially in the U.S. I guess this WILL change :-). > Another thing to remember is that over 2/3 of the Amiga systems >currently being used in the U.S. are A500 systems. Most of these >systems are being used for less professional uses, such as games. But they have all the power of an Amiga, do spread the word, and build a reasonable basis to build on and to earn the money Commodore needs to develop even nicer things. -- Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk