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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Toaster news
Message-ID: <6499@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 19 Apr 91 20:09:32 GMT
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(Ray Cromwell) writes:
)>   People around here have been glorifying in the increased Amiga 
)>sales in Europe to the point that they have been blind to the fact 
)>that the Amiga market in the U.S. is dying.  The U.S. now accounts 
)>for less than 8% of Commodore's world-wide sales, and this will likely
)>get worse as Commodore focuses more and more on Europe.
)
)"99.7 percent of statistics are made up." Marc, please don't quote
)meaningless %'s or make blanket statements about the Amiga market. The U.S.
)market is not dying, it has been increasing.

It has, has it?  Got any figures for that assertion?  Heard the published
estimates on Amiga sales in US last year?  Talked to any US software
developers?

I won't quote the published number of A500 sales in the US last year,
because I can't give the reference to whatever magazine made the
quote, but if I had a nickel for every time Marc B. was less full
of shit than his detractors, I could afford to buy them all.

)  This is bound to start another M*c vs Amiga war, but I don't think
)the Mac is a desktop video platform. I'm also tired of hearing
)these sissy arguement about flicker, somepeople must have weak eyes. :-)

Unfortunately, how *suitable* the Mac or Amiga is for DTV probably won't be
correlated to how *successful* they are in DTV.

	jimm

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