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From: fletcher@netcom.COM (F. Sullivan Segal)
Newsgroups: aus.computers.amiga,comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Raw end of the deal...
Summary: Commodore International
Message-ID: <1991Jun21.223854.19800@netcom.COM>
Date: 21 Jun 91 22:38:54 GMT
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In article <9117223.15634@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> krooglik@ecr.mu.oz.au writes:
>
>  Can anyone in Australia or the US, or anywhere for that matter,
>explain to me why only the US received the Power Up offer?
>
Commodore International is actually made up of many different sub-companies,
one for each country.  Each of the companies pays into the common pool, and
can draw resources from it, but basically they are all still independent.

For example, while the A2000 was being developed in the U.S. (actually as
more of an A500), Germany was working on an entirely different concept.  
When the A500 design was complete in the U.S, it ended up being pretty 
trivial to add some slots to it and create the A2000B.  Since the mother
board was designed for mass marketing (i.e: A500) the A2000B came in at
a considerably lower PPU than the A2000A, and ended up being adopted by
all of the subsidiaries.  

Marketing is another story.  Each company decides for itself how to market
its machines.  Commodore U.S.A has long labored under accusations of 
inadequate advertising and sloppy support.  From what I hear, Germany 
has much stronger advertising, and somewhat stronger sales.  I have no 
idea what australia is doing.  The last reports I heard from down there 
were: At least a couple of months behind everyone else, no customer support,
and basically no familiarity with the computers by any of the upper 
management.  In other words, it is like Commodore U.S.A about three or 
four years ago.  Hopefully they will shape up.




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