Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!cbmnlu1!cbmnlux!ecl014!ronald From: ronald@ecl014.UUCP (Ronald van Eijck) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 6 Jun 91 17:29:44 GMT References: <1991Jun4.003619.3661@news.iastate.edu> <1991Jun4.023950.11286@ncsu.edu> Organization: R&R Software Lines: 28 In article <1991Jun4.023950.11286@ncsu.edu> kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling) writes: >Not an exact comparison, but it'll do for now. We all have been put in >the position time and again, of promoting system X only to have a potential >buyer ask: but does it run software ZZ? All the good arguments you can >come up with usually mean diddly to them... as their mind is fixated on >being able to run ZZ no matter whether or not they will actually use it. > >I can only thank goodness that I'm not in marketing . > cheers - kevin Very good point. Before bridgeboards where available a lot of potential amiga buyers asked 'is it ms-dos compatible ??' sadly you had to say 'no'. The result of this was that the customer said 'no then I don't want it.' Now you can say 'yes, using a bridgeboard you can run 99% of the ms-dos software.' and the customer sais 'yes I'll buy one.' But the clue from it all is that he WILL buy the amiga but he will NEVER buy the bridgeboard. and if he buys it he wil almost never use it. But who cares, he did by an AMIGA. So long, -- +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ronald van Eijck {eunet!}hp4nl!cbmnlux!ecl014!ronald | | | | We do the impossible at once for a miracle we need a little more time | +-------------------------------------------------------------------------+