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From: xgr39@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 Abandonment
Message-ID: <1991Apr29.185929.15555@news.iastate.edu>
Date: 29 Apr 91 18:59:29 GMT
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In article <91119.103349GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be>, GUTEST8@cc1.kuleuven.ac.be (Ives Aerts) writes:
>BTW, Apple is currently blowing everyone away with at HUGE
>advertising campaign over here. They have ads on radio and tv,
>demonstrations on campus etc... 

   That is not at all unusual.  Here at ISU, it is very unusual to
pick up the ISU Daily newspaper and NOT find at least one ad from 
Apple.  Apple has been holding a lot of multimedia classes here lately,
in addition to the usual mini expos where they push their equipment.

>                                 I try to stop as many users
>as possible from buying Apple (converting them to Amiga off course)
>but I would like a bit more support from Commodore.

   Take my advice: don't even try.  For many years, I would religiously
push the Amiga whenever I could, hoping to somedoay get some small
amount of support from Commodore.  I never got it.  I eventually got
sick and tired of it, and decided that if Commodore won't support me,
then I will not support Commodore.

   It is Commodore's job to sell their computers, not yours.  If they
refuse to help even a little by advertizing their computers the way 
Apple does, then they do not deserve your support.  

>
>> -mark=
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