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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: Amiga OS *IS* state of the art, but the NeXT is better
In-Reply-To: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com's message of 3 Apr 91 19:08:02 GMT
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In article <1991Apr3.190802.11055@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes:

   They still sold more machines in the first year than NeXT. How is NeXT's
   great marketing doing? What are the final sales figures on the Cube, and
   how do they match up to the 100,000 Amiga 1000s (let alone the 2,000,000
   Amiga 500s)?

I think NeXT sold somewhere b/w 7,000 and 10,000 original machines.
They have sold around 20,000 new machines(this is all from following
the news rags and the net, NeXT doesn't release sales figures).

I do believe the original Amiga was prices around $1800.  That might
be the reason that the sold more.  What do ya think?

   The NeXT has all the advantages and disadvantages as the Amiga did, and it's
   not selling as well... that tells me my analogy is pretty much on the mark.

The NeXT is selling well.  They are in the $5000 market.  You just
don't sell as many machines there.  Commodore has sold more machines
than Sun too, but most people would buy stock in Sun.

NeXT question.

-Mike