Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!ncar!gatech!ncsuvx!news From: kdarling@hobbes.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Reality check: Amiga coverage is not a right, but a privilege Message-ID: <1990Dec18.120500.13384@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu> Date: 18 Dec 90 12:05:00 GMT References: <1990Dec13.061622.13992@maytag.waterloo.edu> <14937@sdcc6.ucsd.edu> <90351.233854JKT100@psuvm.psu.edu> Sender: news@ncsuvx.ncsu.edu (USENET News System) Organization: NCSU Computing Center Lines: 21 [sorry, missing attributions] >>>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. This is _not_ a flame. We just need more info: * How many of those 2 million Macs were in the US (assuming we're talking US magazine coverage?), versus of the 2 million Amigas? * How many of the Macs were owned by people/companies with jobs/$$$ (read: more ad potential = more coverage) versus the 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. Umm. IF the market is big enough, then why don't all the _current_ Amiga magazines have circulations in the hundreds of thousands? Or do they? Would someone look up the circulation numbers? thx - kevin