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From: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Toaster news
Keywords: Amiga Toaster Apple?
Message-ID: <20725@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Date: 17 Apr 91 22:41:25 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr17.134058.4503@grebyn.com>
Reply-To: hood@cbmvax.commodore.com (Scott Hood)
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Organization: Commodore, West Chester, PA
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In article <1991Apr17.134058.4503@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>In article <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> torrie@cs.stanford.edu (Evan Torrie) writes:
>>
>>  There's an interesting tidbit of news in this week's MacWeek magazine.
>>Quoting from an article about the National Association of Broadcasters
>>show, to be held in Las Vegas next week:
>>
>>"NewTek Inc.  The maker of the popular Video Toaster, a Commodore
>>Amiga-based video editing system, will announce a standalone Toaster
>>that can read Macintosh files directly.
>>  Price at $3,995 and due in June, the new Toaster no longer requires
>>users to buy an Amiga.  "We've taken the cool parts of the Amiga and
>>put it together with the Toaster into a single box," said Steve
>>Hartford, NewTek product manager.
>
>It seems that NewTek has decided that betting their company's future on
>the Amiga platform is not a good idea.  And I think they're right.
>
>In any case, they stand to profit more per unit. That $4K price surely
>does not contain an additional $2500 cost in parts, over the card in the
>Amiga box.  But they could never sell a $4K add-on to Amiga owners, no
>matter what it did.
>
>This now seems to be a common occurance.  Take a successful Amiga
>product, migrate to a different platform (or in the case of NewTek, no
>platform at all), and sell it for a lot more.
>And succeed in selling it.  ByteByByte did this with Sculpt-4D.
>It cost $250 on the Amiga.  The Mac version, not as powerful, sells for
>$2500. The Mac magazines gave it favorable reviews.
>-- 
>First comes the logo: C H E C K P O I N T  T E C H N O L O G I E S      / /  
>                                                ckp@grebyn.com      \\ / /    
>Then, the disclaimer:  All expressed opinions are, indeed, opinions. \  / o
>Now for the witty part:    I'm pink, therefore, I'm spam!             \/

Have you SEEN what this "box" looks like???  To Amiga 2000 owners it may
look very familiar (he, he)! 

Enjoy!

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Scott Hood, Hardware Design Engineer (A3000 Crew),  Commodore-Amiga, Inc.
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