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From: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: YOU PEOPLE HAD BETTER GET WIT THE PROGRAM!! (Was: Re: Commodore Business Machines)
Message-ID: <113@ryptyde.UUCP>
Date: 24 Jun 91 10:51:25 GMT
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Reply-To: dant@ryptyde.UUCP (Daniel Tracy)
Organization: Ryptyde Timesharing (ryptyde.cts.com)
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Responding to the following:


"Exactly.  John Q Customer walks into a computer store and sees big Apple
banners and big IBM Banners.  And in the corner there's a little Amiga sign.
Now you tell me which f*ckin computer he's gonna get first if he doesn't
know everything about computers and isn't deep into the knowledge of differen-
ces in systems."

Not only that, but newer computer users usually have computer-using friends
that they trust and ask what kind of system they should get. They, of course,
only know about IBMs or Macs, and will recommend those. People in the 
computer industry tend to develop a strong antipathy for computer systems
they don't know about, and tend to concede that their computer is better
because the person that started THEM out said the same....
It's a hopeless circle. This is the same kind of thing that really pisses
me off about IBM users and their attitude towards Macs. The end-user 
has developed attitudes about a platform he knows nothing about. The thing
that fascinates me is how, getting on this board, I get the impression that
Amiga users hate Macintosh's even more than IBMs! Interesting. Is it 
generally accepted, at least, that Macintosh machines are generally
"superior" to their IBM counterparts? Is it just that Apple succeeded in
establishing a second standard where Commodore's weak marketing couldn't?