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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Mac Sales Vs Amiga?
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Date: 1 Jun 91 23:05:00 GMT
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taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes:
>   That is very misleading.  I will say again that all of these 
>increased Amiga sales are in Europe.  All of North America now accounts
>for less than 8% of Commodore's world-wide sales, and the U.S. about
>2/3 of this.  This means that Amiga sales in the U.S. are at a near
>standstill, especially compared to Apple which has been reporting
>record sales in the U.S.

Really 2/3 of 8% is 5.28% and 5.28% of 3 million is 158,400 Amiga
computers.  just a few articles ago, you said there were about .4 million in
the us.. so which is it?  those numbers don't match up as well, since sales of
A3000's are so brisk in the US that CBM can't keep up with the demand.this
makes no sense if you look at your numbers.  CBM concentrated it's sales
efforts LAST YEAR on europe.  and they reaped the rewards.  this year the US
is the target and they are selling tons of Amiga's here.  CBM estimates 4
million Amiga's by the end of the year.

>
>   Rumors are bullshit -- I want FACTS.  If A-Max III takes half as
>long to reach the market as A-Max II+, it never will reach the market.
>Besides, what kind of color capabilities are you talking about?  
>ReadySoft cannot use any of the third-party graphics boards, because 
>they all lack the resolution and flicker like all hell.  They also
>cannot use the Amiga's built-in color capabilities, because they 
>are next to non-existant compared to the 8/24-bit color of the LC.
16 bit color is better than no color, and besides that, there are other boards
besides Ham-E.  like Firecracker which is a true 24 bit card.. I would imagine
they would build in a driver system like they did for the hard drives.  where
each manufacturer can write a driver.  this will work quite well, since the
mac doesn't depend on a certain type of device.

>
>   The point is, if A-Max III does support color, it will very likely 
>either support very limited color (16 colors out of a small palette),
>require a third-party graphics board like the HAM-E that flickers
>like hell, or require a very expensive graphics board like the A2410.
>All of this would make a genuine color MAC very desirable in price
>and quality of display.

Some of that might be true, but as i said, the majority of mac color
applications will support a 16 color display quite well.

>
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