Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!transfer!lectroid!jjmhome!crackers!cpoint!frog!rmkhome!rmk From: rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: The Amigas Future Message-ID: <9106140924.27@rmkhome.UUCP> Date: 14 Jun 91 18:24:00 GMT References: <6678@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <1991Jun03.053144.3208@ariel.unm.edu> <1991Jun4.003619.3661@news.iastate.edu> <25233@well.sf.ca.us> <23@ryptyde.UUCP> <50144@ut-emx.uucp> <11977@hub.ucsb.edu> <1991Jun9.183551.3565@neo Organization: The Man With Ten Cats Lines: 22 In article <22369@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) writes: >In article <1991Jun10.105947.22470@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu writes: > >> According to Commodore's 1990 annual report, Commodore spent >>$27.7 million on R&D in 1990. If Commodore spends at the same level >>in 1991, they may break $30 million in R&D spending. Wow, that's >>actually more than 5% of the amount that Apple is spending on R&D! > >Good point. Apple sure is wasting money, no wonder they've had those layoffs >and profits are down. I mean, they're spending 2000% more money, and they >still don't have real multitasking, real SCSI, a modern UNIX, etc. This may be a direct result of Apple's purchase of a Cray. They can sit around and simulate all kinds of wonderful but unmanufacturable machines. A very expensive toy. And they have had the perception that they don't need to fix the current problems because the money was rolling in. Now that they have made their prices a little more realistic, they are being hit in the face by the bottom line. You can only sell so many Max Classics. Rick Kelly rmk@rmkhome.UUCP frog!rmkhome!rmk rmk@frog.UUCP