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From: mmoore@ux.acs.umn.edu (Malcolm Diallo Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Doomsday
Message-ID: <4208@ux.acs.umn.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 01:46:42 GMT
References: <ronald.4032@ecl014.UUCP$
Organization: University of Minnesota, Academic Computing Services
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In article <ronald.4032@ecl014.UUCP$ ronald@ecl014.UUCP (Ronald van Eijck) writes:
$This is a reply to all the people who have nothing better to do then to
$whine on about all the amiga criticism they can think of. Things like:
$- Commodore should invest more in R&D (MB's favorit).
$- Commodore should invest more in advertising.
$- The amiga should have 24 bits graphics.
$- etc. etc.
$
$Now I know that the amiga isn't perfect but I am quiet happy with it. As
$far as I know most of you use the amiga so why are you complaining? If you
$think another system can do things better for a better price buy that
$system and start posting these messages in their .advocacy group.

But we're the only ones that HAVE a .advocacy group.  Now what do you con-
sider the group's existence as?  Strictly pride, or a sense of security?

$If we all started to think positive and post some messages about the things
$the Amiga is good at and its advantages over other systems maybee we can
$change some new c.s.a.* readers mind and make him buy an Amiga instead of
$another system. (that'll give new users without an advertising budget :-)

That's all fine and dandy, you know, but how can you be satisfied at how
Commodore is pushing their product?  Yeah yeah yeah they don't have money,
blase this that and the other.  Who said they had to go bankrupt doing ad-
vertising?  Start small, make a little cash, use some of that cash to make
bigger and better advertisements, etc. etc.  But Commodore is doing nothing!
And if they are doing something, it's a piss-poor, half done effort.  I think
you should hear about a product more than once a year.  You HAVE to get
your product out in the spotlight, if you want it to be bought.  People are
gonna get the first thing (or choose from one of the first things) they see.
They don't have time to go looking in nooks and crannies for a computer that
may or may not be better.  They're lazy.  An amiga 500 is better than any
286/12 as far as sound/graphics/power is concerned, but if you can't see it,
you can't buy it.  Commodore has to make an effort to have their product seen,
and so far I don't see any kind of effort.

There's nothing wrong with the machines out right now.  I mean, there could
be improvements, no doubt, but it's nothing that'll make C= keel over.  However,
the machines can't be used if they're not out so John Q Customer can see them.
Because most of the Customer family ('cept maybe Benny, John Q's second cousin)
doesn't know the difference.

P.S. Flame away if you like.  My mailbox automatically shreds incoming flame
mail.

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