Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!emory!gatech!hubcap!ncrcae!ncr-sd!crash!nusdecs!nusjecs!ozonebbs!vsolanoy From: vsolanoy@ozonebbs.UUCP (Victor Solanoy) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Amiga will bump Mac. Message-ID: Date: 3 Apr 91 18:17:47 GMT References: <1991Mar31.055402.7293@ariel.unm.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: The ()zone BBS, +1 408 223 1738 Lines: 32 nwickham@triton.unm.edu (Neal C. Wickham) writes: > I think that the truth is that many people confuse Amiga with Atari, at least > on a deeper emotional level since most people have never actually seen or use > an Amiga. Amiga Unix and the Toaster will help give Amiga a stronger identit > I actually found it funny when I was just playing with DPAINT, how many people that I was working with a Macintosh... I think if people see the graphic aspect of Amiga, they think it's an Apple Macintosh, while if they see the games, they may mistake it for an Atari... or better yet Amiga. I don't think the real problem is that the Amiga is percieved as a game machine (isn't this what multi-media is all about? 8) ) But that the Amiga is battling an industry of set standards. With so many machines established in certain aspects of the computing market, more specifically, the niche that fills the 'personal' computer market, there are two main forces involved: IBM and Apple with its Macintosh. Macintosh just came along at the right time when computers started to dominate certain parts of the 'world.' It had a pretty graphics enviroment that people weren't intimidated with. Probably its earlier release (I think it was released earlier than the Amiga), and an aggresive advertising campaign, it won out... Of coarse, the first Mac... (can you say LISA?) was a complete flop (probably because of price).... The way I see things, the Amiga is what the Mac was to DTP just a couple years ago. Victor