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From:         Andy Patrizio <PYC136@uriacc.uri.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject:      computer buyers
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Date: 4 Jun 91 18:08:00 GMT
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David Hopper said:

>The fact is,
>the average American person is a complete moron, and you have to make
>computers simple or they will not sell.  Commodore borrowed quite a
>lot from the MAC with Workbench 2.0, and people are continually calling
>on Commodore to borrow more from Apple and make the Workbench even more
>MAC-like.  Judging from the sales of the MAC compared to the sales of
>the Amiga, Commodore is right to be borrowing as much as possible
>from the MAC.

No, Marc.  Fact is, the average American computer buyer is an
intelligent decision-maker who looks at the options *accessible* to them
and makes a value judgement based upon the strengths and weaknesses of
various platforms.  It's unfortunate the Amiga isn't more available to
more people; but that's just how it is, right now.  Doesn't mean it's
not reversible, and if you'd take a look a sales, you'd see that the
Amiga is selling at a faster clip than the Mac.  Period.  Which is good
for everyone not affiliated with that giant, belching corporocracy.

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You obviously haven't worked for a computer dealership. I have. You want
to know some of the brianless comments I got?

"I'm looking to buy a computer, but I'm not excatly sure what I want to
do with it."

"We're thinkin' about gettin' a computer, but we're not sure what. What's
out there?"

"I'm thinkin' about gettin' a computer. Can you do writing with them?"

No word of a lie, that's what I had to put up with. For a country that
spends so much time and energy on consumerism, we sure are lousy at it.
People wanting to blow $3000 on something they knew NOTHING about. Many of
them clearly were not ready to buy, or were thinking recklessly. To sell
them a computer would have been robbery. So there goes 20 minutes trying to
get them to decide what they wanted to do with their investment. I could
have taken a lot of people for a lot of money and they'd never know it.

So no, American's are not smart computer buyers. Many of them are clueless.

.signed,

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