Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!news.cs.indiana.edu!news.nd.edu!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!expert.cc.purdue.edu!blissmer From: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Kevin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: NeXT/Amiga Flamage: Get a life. Message-ID: <11034@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 23 Apr 91 00:22:33 GMT References: <10867@uwm.edu> <6hdG18ik1@cs.psu.edu> <1748@sjfc.UUCP> Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu Reply-To: blissmer@expert.cc.purdue.edu (Corey) Organization: Purdue University Lines: 29 >Oh my God, I couldn't resist. Amiga users doing their HW before screaming >standard lines of propaganda? (This is going to be like stepping on ants) >Propaganda? You've got to be kidding. On this side of the fence (Amiga) >we face more propaganda from other computer users >(assuming themselves literate and 'informed') about how the Amiga is dying, >only a game machine, never compete, unsupported, lousy software....and >on and on. Try out this sometime, mention the Amiga in one of your >computer related discussions with someone else and watch the propaganda >flow. Like: "Yeah, I've heard about that machines, so-and-so says >[insert propaganda here]" Amiga owners must face the same things Mac owners faced before 1987. Like: It doesn't run 1-2-3, it isn't made by IBM, it's too small, it looks like a toy. Now you face: It doesn't run Pagemaker, Excel, or Word, it's a game machine, it's not made by Apple OR IBM, no 32-bit color, etc. Apple beat their arguements down in 1987-88 with Word 3.0, Pagemaker, the Laserwriter, and the Mac II/SE. They now enjoy the number one position in unit sales according to Friday's WSJ. Commodore needs to pull the same thing Apple did. The playing field is a little different today. In 1986 there was Apple vs. IBM and the clones. 1991 brings Apple, IBM, a lot more clones, NeXT, Atari;-), Sparclones. The mac was significantly different that anything else on the market. Although there are definate differences between platforms, you can accomplish basically the same things on most machines. If Commodore's goal is to become a force in the US computer industry, they need to pull a hell of a rabbit out of their hat.