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.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amiga's Future Message-ID: Date: 16 Jun 91 03:04:07 GMT References: <1991Jun12.211858.5727@midway.uchicago.edu> <1991Jun15.104011.22220@maths.tcd.ie> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 52 sfsoc@maths.tcd.ie (Science Fiction Society) writes: >In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) wr >>Singapore?! Singapore!? Thats gotta be the dumbest thing they could do. I >>Why did they lay people off then, if they can't make enough? Or did they hire >>20% extra help in Singapore to make up for the lost jobs in CA? > >#They churn out Classics and LCs in here in Ireland. There are *lots* >of bootleg Macs going round---some amazing homebrew versions can be assembled >to order really cheap. Is that how they get a unit with a SONY power supply and NEC chips into Europe? I know they are more picky about content than we are....I know Honda has gone through MUCH grief to build a car in North America with upwards of 80% N.A. content, JUST for the option of sending it to EC 1992. Some people think they expanded their Marysville Ohio plant for the U.S. market, people who know, know otherwise...They will be sending them to Europe as U.S. cars, to compliment their plants they will have (or currently have) there. >#Of course, with Ireland producing Macs for the EC, it means that damn >near everywhere is totally MacHappy. People think Classics are state of the >art. Pathetic. You have to remember Apple has some really good marketing people. Thats what it takes to sell anything that sells at 2x its true market value..People talk on the net about Commodore, and how they don't advertise, and on how well they sell. They are not in the pricy market Mac is. If they were still selling A1000's for $2300, you wouldn't see 3 million units shipped today. Heck, you wouldn't even see a million. EVEN if they did spend as much as Apple on slick ads, because they never established any kind of an educational base, until way late...At least thats the message talking to people on the BBS's, that their H.S. has a Mac lab, their elementary school got Macs, etc... >#By the way, I'd hope that you're equally xenophobic about your >feelings over Paddys assembling Macs, otherwise you'd leave yourself open >to accusations of racism :-) Hey, if its to get it into the EC, and not to bring it over here! Be glad the EC is there to protect the jobs...Thats the way it should be...Not too many people working at Burger King are going to buy Macs...But with defence cuts, the recession, and the added taxes that those fools at "DisneyLand on the Potomac" pulled last year, we'll be lucky if the Burger Kings are here. Heard someone on the news call this a "DEPRESSION", and how 400 banks will fail this year...Guess NBC, ABC, and CBS are waiting for the stock market to crash before they start calling it a depression though... -- C-UseNet V0.42e 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!) DISCLAIMER: I say what I mean, and mean what I say.