Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!msi.umn.edu!cs.umn.edu!kksys!orbit!zuhause!bruce From: bruce@zuhause.MN.ORG (Bruce Albrecht) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Commodore Research and Development. Message-ID: Date: 5 Jan 91 17:26:25 GMT References: <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> Lines: 37 >In article <1991Jan3.003449.1@ccvax.iastate.edu> taab5@ccvax.iastate.edu writes: > > I would seriously like someone to tell me why, over the past few years, >Commodore's research and development has become very, very lax. To prove >my point I would like to present six cases in which Commodore hardware R&D >has fallen well behind the rest of the industry -- in some cases two or >three generations behind. [Examples deleted ] > > In conclusion, I feel that Commodore has fallen so for behind in their >R&D that they will probably never catch up. Commodore has never been >a company that produces innovative new technologies, and very likely never >will be. Commodore is a 'catch-up' company that is forever trying to >catch up with the rest of the industry, to avoid going out of business >altogether, and will likely always be this way. > > AMIGA -- YESTERDAY'S TECHNOLOGY, FOREVER!!! > > > -MB- Ah yes, the monthly flame from Marc Barrett. As usual, you are preaching on deaf ears, Marc. It serves no purpose to do so. Commodore management doesn't pay much attention to Usenet (although Copperman did tell me that he does get read some postings given to him by his staff). Amiga owners doen't care to hear that their machine is no good. Prospective Amiga owners get turned off because they hear more anti-Amiga bad-mouthing. I'm not saying that everything is roses at Commodore, because it isn't. However, I bought an Amiga because it had qualities that the IBM PC and Macintoshes lack. But if enough prospective Amiga buyers get turned off by postings like yours, Commodore will never have the bucks for R&D to play catch-up, or even become leading edge. If you dislike Commodore management so much, find another platform (I'd recommend the NeXT machine), and switch. -- bruce@zuhause.mn.org