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From: don@chopin.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
Message-ID: <17227@chopin.udel.edu>
Date: 1 Jun 91 03:56:04 GMT
References: <27494@know.pws.bull.com> <1991Jun1.022249.22182@news.iastate.edu>
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In article <1991Jun1.022249.22182@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>In article <27494@know.pws.bull.com>, ai065@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Thomas Hill) writes:
>>
>>   I seem to remember somebody on here stating that it took the Amiga less
>>time to reach a sales mark (2 million?) than it did the Mac. I'm in need of
>>a reprint on that for the benefit of some Mac "friends". If you know the
>>figures please post them.
>
>   There is currently an installed base of roughly 5 million MACs and 
>2 million Amigas world-wide.  However, these figures are very misleading
>because most of the Amigas are in Europe and most of the MACs are in
>the U.S.
>
     That estimate of 5 million Macs was made before the new 'low cost' machines
hit the streets.  The sales of these have probably boosted that number,
especially with the demand for (yech!) Classics. 
	 Your Amiga numbers are also off, by a more significant margin :-).
At the World of Amiga show this past (April?), James Dionne said that
they'd officially hit the 3 million mark.  He said it had reached the 2
million mark in ~6 months less time than it took the Mac, and the 3 million
over 1 year more quickly.  (Disclaimer - these times might not be the
exact ones he quoted... but I think they're fairly close :-)

>   If you wish to compare the systems more directly, there is currently
>an installed base of about 4 million MACs and 0.4 million Amigas in the
>U.S.  These figures are more directly relevent, since the majority of
>readers of Usenet are in the U.S.  This is also where I got my figure
>of "10 MACs for every Amiga" in a previous message.
>

     I don't know the percentage of Amigas in the US, but I know that as of
the last annual stockholder's report, 75% of them were in Europe.  Yes, a lot
needs to be done in the U.S. market.  Don't blame it all on CBM, though.
The company's got its faults, to be sure, but overall I've seen a steady
improvement over the last few years.  The people I've been talking with
since becoming an ASOCC have all seemed like dedicated, competent people
who are trying to promote a product in a near-hostile environment ('The
Industry') with limited funds and manpower.  I've also noticed that they
can be difficult to get in touch with... they always seem to be away at
trade shows, etc...



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