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From: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita)
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
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Date: Sun, 2 Jun 1991 01:51:47 GMT

In article <1991Jun2.011552.12676@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes:
>
>   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.
>
	No one here has ever denied the problems Commodore has
had penetrating the American market. There are many different
reasons, some blame Commodore, some blame people, most blame
both. Very few blame the programmers and techs at Commodore.

	To quote the other statistics from the report from Alex,
Brown & Sons, at the time when 2.5 million Amigas were sold, they
estimated:

US:	  600,000
UK:	  500,000
BRD:	1,100,000

	The other 300,000, accounting for 12% of total sales, are
spread throughout the rest of the world. It seems likely that CBM
UK will outsell US, at least that's my opinion. They've been
having record sales and the A500 is the best selling computer in
Britain.
	-- Ethan

Now the world has gone to bed,		Now I lay me down to sleep,
Darkness won't engulf my head,		Try to count electric sheep,
I can see by infrared,			Sweet dream wishes you can keep,
How I hate the night.			How I hate the night.   -- Marvin