Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!sugar!peter From: peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <1991May6.110530.7978@sugar.hackercorp.com> Organization: Sugar Land Unix -- Houston, TX References: <1991May5.115329.24187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <_g5Gy0x*1@cs.psu.edu> Date: Mon, 6 May 1991 11:05:30 GMT In article <_g5Gy0x*1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > In article <1991May5.115329.24187@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > If I hear "educational discount" prices for the NeXT once more I'm going to > scream. I shall go stark raving mad and I shall take you with me. We will > be very happy together in a rubber room. > I can get an 25MHz Amiga 3000 for $2200 with an eductational discount > :-). Aaaaargh!!!!!!!!!! Bwahahahahahahaha!!! Phhhhhhphphpht! The Tuna! They are calling me. Nyuk nyuk nyuk. Oh, a wise guy, eh? *Poit* > That depends on the audience that you're talking to. It sounds to me > like most of the people who I am arguing with are definitely college > students. With the luck to be at the right colleges? > The prices did seem a bit high, but they looked like standard business > prices. $995 for FrameMaker(it's the same on the Mac, Sun and NeXT?). > Packages like WP, Illustrator, Wingz, Improv,etc go from $395 to $695. Yes, but that's *all* that's offered. Where are the $20-$50 programs? > Most of the stuff that I use comes free with the NeXT or is available > by anonymous ftp. Yes, and most of the stuff I use comes free with the Amiga or is available on BBSes and for anonymous UUCP. But you or I are not the marketplace that make a machine a success. You have to get it to end-users, and they need software. Why should they pay $5000 for the NeXT and $400-$700 a pop for packages when they can get a PC with Windows or a Mac for $2000 and pay $200 to $400 a pop for software? The Amiga has a lot of end-user markets that don't compete with the two big boys. What does the NeXT have? -- Peter da Silva. `-_-' .