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From: JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu (JKT)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege
Message-ID: <90351.233854JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu>
Date: 18 Dec 90 04:38:54 GMT
References: <1990Dec13.061622.13992@maytag.waterloo.edu> <14937@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>
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In article <14937@sdcc6.ucsd.edu>, cleland@sdbio2.ucsd.edu (Thomas Cleland)
says:
>
>In article <1990Dec13.061622.13992@maytag.waterloo.edu>                       u
>giguere@csg.waterloo.ed (Eric Giguere) writes:
>
>>The point is, there is no "anti-Amiga conspiracy".  It's all a matter
>>of supply and demand.  And it's certainly NOT censorship!  ...
>
>>More Amiga coverage will happen only when the market is big enough.
>>
>Absolutely correct.

Absolutely incorrect.  There were a lot more Mac magazines and Mac
coverage in the "generic" magazines when there were two million Macs
than there is Amiga coverage now when there are two million Amigas.
The market is big enough.  And because there is STILL not enough
coverage out there, the logical conclusion is there must be other
forces at work than simple supply and demand.  Supply and demand is
a simple, but unfortunately in this day and age, quaint idea.  It
worked for a long time until some smart cookies figured out how to
beat it.

Example: Apple has been repeatedly known to threaten to pull a
dealer's Apple license if that dealer started selling Amigas.
This is but one example of defeating supply and demand.  And you
don't think Apple wouldn't do this in the publishing world?  Even
if threats were ineffective against publishers, under the table
dollars speak loudly.  And personally, I wouldn't trust Bill Gates
and Microsoft any farther than Apple.

So who here REALLY think the Amiga has gotten a fair shake in the
magazine/publishing industry?  How many magazines have added Amiga
sections on a trial basis to see if the readers wanted it?  Heck,
how many supposedly "unbisased" and "industry-wide" coverage magazines
regularly report on new Amiga developments?  Or even outstanding Amiga
developments?  I sure never saw AmigaVision or Disney Animation Studio
in Byte...

No this is not censorship.  It is public misinformation though.
These publications claim to be unbiased, fair, almost newspaper-like
reservoirs of computer industry information.  As far as I'm concerned,
if the Amiga is left out of that pool of information, thereby keeping
the reader in the dark (and thereby, misleading the reader into thinking
the Mac and IBM (and NeXT) are the only computers to buy), then that
publication is doing something wrong.  It may not be doing something
illegal, but it is doing something wrong and immoral.

All in my opinion, of course.  :-)
                                                            Kurt
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