Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!ccwf.cc.utexas.edu From: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: An interesting idea... Message-ID: <48624@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 7 May 91 23:26:34 GMT References: <1991May5.115329.24187@sugar.hackercorp.com> <_g5Gy0x*1@cs.psu.edu> <1991May6.110530.7978@sugar.hackercorp.com> <=0bGppm&1@cs.psu.edu> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Greg Harp) Organization: The University of Texas at Austin Lines: 48 In article <=0bGppm&1@cs.psu.edu> melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) writes: > >In article <1991May6.110530.7978@sugar.hackercorp.com> peter@sugar.hackercorp.com (Peter da Silva) writes: > > Yes, but that's *all* that's offered. Where are the $20-$50 programs? > >Ok, Peter. What were you doing 6 years ago when I was telling people >to buy the Amiga, it was the hottest thing since sliced bread(probably >a DOS weenie). There weren't any $50 programs available then, just >the EA stuff that used to GURU meditate, and the Bouncing Ball demo. >When a new computer is released it has to start somewhere. Hmmm... Actually, I though I remembered that most of the Amiga software costed $50 back then. >Which Macs or PCs are you going to get for $2000? The people who are >interested in the more expensive Macs and PC's will love the NeXT. >It's also great if you are a student who can get one for cheap. You >are right, the NeXT does have a limited market for now. They are >targeting businesses and college students. Hopefully, that will >change in two years, but they are only capable of producing 100,000 >machines a year at the moment, and establishing themselves with big >business first will help entice software developers. Catch-22 there. You have to have software in order to establish yourself as a big business. BTW, I can get a pretty decent 386 box for $2000. If I ran a business I don't think I'd concern myself with some weird, non-standard machine like the NeXT even if all I was going to do was spreadsheet work (by that I mean even if I could use Improv). I'm asking for more trouble by getting into a Unix box in the first place, and from what I hear about administering a NeXT that's a serious consideration. > The Amiga has a lot of end-user markets that don't compete with the two big > boys. What does the NeXT have? > >They compete with the big boys. You call 30,000 machines competition? Timex still has NeXT beat. >-Mike Greg -- Greg Harp |"I was there to match my intellect on national TV, | against a plumber and an architect, both with a PhD." greg@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu| -- "I Lost on Jeopardy," Weird Al Yankovic