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From: swarren@convex.com (Steve Warren)
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Subject: Re: Wing Commander?
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Date: 7 Jan 91 20:54:38 GMT
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In article <4564@vela.acs.oakland.edu> hastoerm@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Moriland) writes:
                                [...]
>for it in the British mags I've been reading. As for difficulties with
>releasing CDTV, I haven't heard of any. Mostly it's more that
>Commodore is being careful about it. Doing a test market and all.
>Makes good sense to me.
                                [...]
Well, maybe after seeing all the dire predictions of how nasty the '90
Christmas season was going to be they decided to wait on the introduction.

All I had heard about it indicated that they were predicting an introduction
timed for the '90 Christmas season.  Normally when someone announces that
XYZ computer-based whizzymijig will be available in the month of Foobar and
then Foober and a couple more months pass by without any more indication of
a release, people are inclined to think that the company is experiencing
difficulties in the labs.

Disclaimer - I have never seen an actual announcement by Commodore that CDTV
would be shipping in any particular time frame, so the worst thing I could
accuse them of is allowing the *impression* of a Christmas season release to
prevale in the Amiga market.  Of course, this is sort of like accusing a
ship's captain of allowing a hurricane to prevale in the South Seas  ;^).

But seriously, the people I heard talking about it seemed convinced that it
was supposed to be released in Oct/Nov.  That might be why some folks think
there are unchronicled difficulties hindering CDTV.

Speaking of unchronicled difficulties, has anyone ever heard anything about
the Thor (TM) rewritable CD technology that Tandy unveiled with such fanfare
a few years ago?  I thought they were supposed to already have a product out
by now.  If they don't get their tales in gear the Japanese electronics giants
will have magnetic-technology rewritables selling cheaper than Tandy will be
able to sell the initial Thor technology units for...

One of the problems with late introductions of new products is the income
that is unrecoverably lost because competitors won't wait for you.  It is sort
of like graduating from college a year late.  You've lost an entire year's
income at your career salary rate.  Of course, for some of us, delaying our
graduation may add another year to our life  ;^).

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