Path: utzoo!utgpu!utorvm!ryerson!acps1072
Date: Wednesday, 20 Mar 1991 20:50:29 EST
From: ACPS1072@RYERSON <ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA>
Message-ID: <91079.205029ACPS1072@Ryerson.CA>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.multimedia
Subject: Re: Multimedia on CNN
References: <%YY-8#%@irie.ais.org> <1991Mar19.222832.23744@news.iastate.edu>
 <1991Mar19.235612.24975@news.iastate.edu>
 <91079.104344GHGAQZ4@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>

I think Commodore's idea to market a CD-Rom player (as opposed to a
computer with a CD-ROM player) is a great idea.  It attacks the market
of non-computer people (like artsie fartsie students - no offense :> ).
People get sick, discussed, and even fear a "computer thingy-ma-bobber with
it's cryptic methods of working" (quoting an artsie friend of mine).
Take for example Machintosh (ok it's a little flame), the whole concept of
owning a MAC is so you don't have to know how a computer works (maybe that's
a good thing).  They sure sell a lot of these little pests so Apple must be

  To bring up yet another point, how can we make a CD-Rom base machine with
so few CD-ROM discs out in the market.  Again we can look at the Mac as an
example.  There really is not much selection out there.  Discus kiddie
CDs, the occassional programmers utilities, dictionaries (that sort of thing)
and various comic books (which have been rumoured to be coming soon).
Now we ask ourselves...  Do we really want to market Commodore's new gadget
as a computer?

Just thought I'd get my two cents in.

Derek Lang<<<<<    |
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