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From: taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett)
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1991 01:15:52 GMT
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In article <1991Jun1.160826.8738@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes:
>In article <1991Jun1.022249.22182@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>>
>>   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.
>>
>>   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.
>>
>	Marc, where do you get your numbers from? 7 month old
>posts? Here's rather up-to-date information:
>
>As of last April's World of Amiga in NYC, 3 million Amigas have
>been shipped according to (if I remember right) Jim Dionne.
>
>According to the Alex, Brown & Sons report (they are stock
>analysts specializing in computer companies), at the point in
>time when there were 2.5 million Amigas world wide, there were
>600,000 in the U.S. Same rate of growth (which of course isn't
>guaranteed, but should be approximate) puts the US at 720,000.
>
>	I've stated my sources. What are yours?

   I got my numbers from AmigaWorld and BusinessWeek.  OK, I may have been
a bit off on the Amiga numbers, but even 720,000 sucks badly.  With an 
installed base *IN THE U.S.* of over 4 million Macintoshes, this means
that Apple has 5 MACs for every Amiga in the U.S.  This is in spite of
the fact that the MACs carry a much higher price, and are in a marketing
segment where volume sales are more difficult than the Amiga's market
segment.

   In other words, Commodore stresses mass-marketing, and still does not
sell as many Amigas as Apple sells Macintoshes.  So much for mass-
marketing.

>
>	-- Ethan
>
>Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
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