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From: jerry@TALOS.UUCP (Jerry Gitomer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TT disk, memory upgrades (was Re: TT sales)
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Date: 30 Jan 91 16:10:13 GMT
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Bob_BobR_Retelle@cup.portal.com writes:

:Allan Pratt wrote a message pretty much spelling out how Atari Corp plans
:to try to lock their customers into buying what Atari Corp wants to sell
:them, NOT what the customers may want...

If Atari, or anyone else, ignores what their customers want they will wind
up going out of business.  The TT, the Portfolio, and the new 16-bit game
machines indicate that Atari =isn't= going out of business.  Ergo, Atari
is selling what the customers want, although perhaps this does not
coincide with what =you= (or I) might want.

:It's really too bad that Atari Corp, as a third-rate computer company can't
:learn to accomodate their customers as their competition does.  Apple and
:IBM Corp don't force you into buying what *they* want to sell you.  They'll
:sell you the system you want, and allow you to upgrade it as you want.

You have obviously not looked at either a MAC Classic or a PS/1.

:Why would Atari design the TT with memory "daughterboards" you can only
:obtain from Atari otherwise..?

Atari will not, and cannot, stop you or anyone else from going into 
business making and sellng daughterboards that replace those Atari 
sells for the TT.

:Why would Atari insist on selling you the hard drive THEY want to sell?

Perhaps they want to minimize cost for the typical purchaser, perhaps they
want to maximize profit, perhaps they just want to make sure that the TT
users have a hard disk that is "performance tuned" to the processor.

:Just another example of how Atari Corp will always remain a backwater
:"other" computer company.

I don't agree, but to each his own opinion.

-- 
Jerry Gitomer at National Political Resources Inc, Alexandria, VA USA
I am apolitical, have no resources, and speak only for myself.
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