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From: consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Marcus Cannava)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Still no Ami businessware.
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Date: 16 Mar 91 21:01:42 GMT
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In article <12017@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, navas@cory.Berkeley.EDU (David
C. Navas) writes:
|>In article <19656@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com
(Dave Haynie) writes:
|>>
|>>"The Amiga", like any other computer system, is a complete environment.  As
|>>in all environments, every member of that environment is responsible for the
|>>success of the environment as a whole.  Commodore can certainly do its part,
|>>but it is no magician.
|>

"The Amiga" is a product that makes a company money. Let's not lose
sight of Commodore's main interest: Turning a profit. Commodore is not
in this business for fun, nor to enrich people's lives, they are in it
to make dollars.

Now, let's see.. Commodore is actually expecting the customers to do
"their part" in assisting them in making money? Isn't it in Commodore's
best interest to advertise, and promote the Amiga, to achieve their goal?

I don't know, but I don't see where it's my "responsibility" to do
anything at all to help the machine succeed. I may *desire* the machine
to succeed (which I do), but I don't have the funds, resources, time, or
the interest, simply because the end result is just giving more money to
Commodore.

If I do the selling, I expect the money and the profit.

Commodore, if you sell the machine, then you deserve your money. But
don't tell me it's MY responsibility to sell YOUR machine, and watch YOU
get the money for it.

It's not "Commodore does its part, now you customers do your part"; this
is Commodore's ballgame completely.

		- Their machine,
		- Their profit,
		
		but most of all,

		- THEIR work in promoting it.

And gee, Commodore, maybe if you actually did more than "your half",
you'd find your customers a little more eager to scream out "I'm an
Amiga owner, you should be, too!" 

"The Amiga" is not a cult. It's a machine. The customer's
"responsibility" to it ends after he signs the check.

I love the Amiga. I want it to succeed. But I feel that Commodore must
wake up and take ALL the responsibility in promoting it and supporting
it, and stop relying on and exploiting the "word-of-mouth" customer
network, which is the ONLY thing that has made the Amiga survive from
the A1000 models years ago.

					\marc

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consp13@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu			Marcus N. Cannava
       @bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu			SUNY-Binghamton
----------------------------------			Student Consultant
'I do not fear computers.. 
 I fear the lack of them'  -- I. Asimov					RNM