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From: kdarling@hobbes.catt.ncsu.edu (Kevin Darling)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
Message-ID: <1991Jun26.031230.11612@ncsu.edu>
Date: 26 Jun 91 03:12:30 GMT
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lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey) writes:
>The Amiga does do what I want and does fill my needs. I just want the
>company to be around the day after tomorrow to continue to support my
>needs and have the machine do what I want. With the way things are
>going, this will not be the case for Commodore.

I agree with the first part: that's a perfectly reasonable desire (altho
I hasten to add that many owners of no-longer-supported computers are
still happy).

The last sentence is a personal prediction, and I usually try not to
argue over those (too much :-).   I think CBM is trying a lot of things
out right now, and that's good... it shows a high desire to please their
customers with whatever is currently possible to do.  I'm a pan-68K
junkie, and so hold no childish allegiances to any one brandname, but
I do think CBM is doing an overall better job than they have in many years.

However, history has shown that if enough customers don't agree with
such an assessment, then there _will_ be real problems.  I think that
the desire to avoid self-fulfilling prophecies is what causes others
to take issue with someone's personal opinions (like yours).  Whether
that reaction is right or not, I don't know.  best - kdarling@catt.ncsu.edu