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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Industry Publications Ignoring the Amiga.
Message-ID: <967@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 12 Dec 90 21:28:07 GMT
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Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
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In article <EF73892CBBBF006453@ISUVAX.BITNET> WHE46@CCVAX.IASTATE.EDU (Marc Barrett) writes:
>   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.

	If these arguments held any truth at all then there would be zero
	articles about the NeXT printed. This has not been the case, so
	there must be someother underlying reasons for the lack of Amiga
	articles.

	I suggest that it is fear! The Amiga has been ridiculed from the 
	start by MAC and IBM magazine types because they fear to lose
	Advertising money from MAC/IBM sources. It was a terrific 
	machine from the start (with an immature OS 1.0) that shook up a
	lot of people. The defense against it was fueled by CBM and
	the orginal Amiga corp.. The Amiga was protected from pre-introduction
	discovery by being a "killer game machine". Every feature that the 
	Amiga has had from the start has since been "re-invented" by Apple
	and IBM since (i.e multi-tasking OS, multimedia, NTSC compatability
	the list goes on...). As the gap narrows the amount of articles
	has increased. Amiga is now getting fair press coverage (fair
	as in not negative,but still unequal) along with a better rep
	for support (thanks CBM). Things are leveling out but that is
	a problem in it's self. CBM needs something NOW to push ahead,
	as to what that is who knows? Maybe the 040 board for the A3000,
	maybe an A4000 (but I doubt it), maybe bundled Ethernet......
	something needs to break and break big.

	Enough of my two cents worth, send all flames to MB--he's used to it
	by now :)

	Monty Saine