Path: utzoo!censor!geac!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU!WHE46 From: WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga. Message-ID: Date: 11 Dec 90 22:20:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Lines: 49 In article <629@cbmger.UUCP> Peter Kittel GERMANY writes: >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. I did not get my point across very well in the original message, so I will restate it here. Magazines do not write for computers. Magazines write for PEOPLE. The people that most computer industry publications in the U.S. (such as InfoWorld, PC World, etc.) write for is the community of people who use computers for professional purposes. Unfortunaly, Amiga users make up only a tiny fraction of that community. Until this changes, these publications will continue to not mention the Amiga in their articles. For all of the Amiga's capabilities, it is not of most interest to 95% of the readers of these magazines. These magazines, therefore, do not mention anything that is not of much interest to their readers. All the bundled multimedia software in the world, and all the multimedia capabilities in the world, will not make these publications notice the Amiga. Amiga users need to become a noticeable percentage of the community of professional computer users. Unfortunately, this has not happened yet, and at the current rate that Commodore is selling 'professional' (non-A500) Amigas in the U.S., it likely never will. >-- >Best regards, Dr. Peter Kittel // E-Mail to \\ Only my personal opinions... >Commodore Frankfurt, Germany \X/ {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!cbmger!peterk -MB-