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From: ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Toaster news
Keywords: Amiga Toaster Apple?
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.043012.19333@grebyn.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 04:30:12 GMT
References: <1991Apr16.060721.4531@neon.Stanford.EDU> <1991Apr17.134058.4503@grebyn.com> <1991Apr17.213337.3693@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu>
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In article <1991Apr17.213337.3693@mintaka.lcs.mit.edu> rjc@geech.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Ray Cromwell) writes:
>In article <1991Apr17.134058.4503@grebyn.com> ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
>>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.
>
>  I think the Amiga will be around for a long while, especially
>in Europe. In Europe the Amiga is selling like C64s used to, and
>C= sold more 64's than Macs (almost 3x as more).

I didn't say (although I see where it would be easy to infer) that the
Amiga platform was going to dissappear; in fact, I think Amigas will be
selling many years from now.  I see the Amiga remaining
successful at the low end, the consumer machine (A500) and CDTV.  I
think the high end machines have a questionable future.

(I'd make a side bet: any new C= custom chips will be geared toward
improving CDTV.  Faster animation. Better sound.  No better resolution,
still plain NTSC. More colors. Decompression hardware.  Stuff a CDTV
device needs. Not designed to support a GUI for business
productivity, nor a competitive megapixel workstation display, nor a
departure into device-independent or retargettable graphic model.)

>  This is the underlying reason. I don't think NewTek is in danger of
>going bankrupt. They just want more $$$. Porting to the Mac market
>is going to yield more profit. I don't blame NewTek for wanting more money,
>I just wish they would have waited longer before porting the Toaster.

Now *that's* what you should bet the company on: a large market with
money to spend and willingness to spend it.  You just have to look 
around a little bit, to see that MacroMind can sell for thousands what
Commodore gives away free (AmigaVision).  And it's because of a fierce
resistance to Commodore products for serious applications.  Is it any
wonder developers leap to the other platforms?

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