Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rphroy!cfctech!teemc!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga? Message-ID: Date: 2 Jun 91 03:50:06 GMT References: <27494@know.pws.bull.com> <1991Jun1.022249.22182@news.iastate.edu>,<1991Jun1.160826.8738@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Jun2.011552.12676@news.iastate.edu> Organization: Life In Hell BBS, Sterling Heights, MI Lines: 36 In article <1991Jun2.011552.12676@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: >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. >>> >> Marc, where do you get your numbers from? 7 month old >>posts? Here's rather up-to-date information: >> > 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. > I don't see ANY Amigas in CompUSA, so they are NOT mass-marketing the high end machines. IF they did, they would sell more. My dad would have bought an Amiga 3000 if CompUSA carried them, he's allready told me that. Would have been 1 more Amiga in the US. That place gotta ring up $25,000 an hour on the registers... -- Ronald Kushner Life In Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!)