Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!uunet!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!qt.cs.utexas.edu!yale.edu!ox.com!caen!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!hobbes.physics.uiowa.edu!news.iastate.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!m.cs.uiuc.edu!vela!sycom!rkushner From: rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy Subject: Re: Who cares if its made in USA? Message-ID: Date: 28 Jun 91 03:40:58 GMT References: <1991Jun23.203549.24627@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <1991Jun25.133105.24631@wehi.dn.mu.oz> <1991Jun27.200801.24637@wehi.dn.mu.oz> Organization: Michigan Information eXchange Lines: 54 baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes: >In article , rkushner@sycom.UUCP (Ronald Kushner) wr >> baxter_a@wehi.dn.mu.oz writes: >>>> Does Commodore have a Japanese version of AmigaDOS??? If not, why not?! I >>>.... >>> (some silly stuff deleted) >> >> You call an Japanese version of AmigaDOS silly!? 200,000 people from Japan >> working in the US with computer systems that are very un-friendly to >> them!?!??!! The NEC systems here don't run the Japanese software...Apple if >> left unchallanged will make a killing! > >Yes. I do. There is a great deal more involved aiming a product at a market >than getting the language right. The Amiga attempting to compete in Japan >against Japanese companies would have troubles because: > >Limited keyboard size. >Limited resolution. >No (Japanese) software. >Transport costs. >The effectiveness of Japanese "Buy home made goods" programs. Apple Computer is catering to the needs of 250 Japanese firms in the Detroit area. Apple uses something called KanjiTalk, which uses word phonetics to build characters from the sounds of the word types in. The user points to the character on the screen that is the correct one.... According to the Detroit Free Press, "Apple will tap a very rich market" because there are 1,400 Japanese onwed factories in the United States and 200,000 Japanese workers. Eiji Kato, a quality control manager for A.W. Transmission Engineering in Plymouth, MI, says his Japanese NEC computer won't work with the NEC equipment he can buy in the United States. But the Mac software will work on any Mac worldwide... The limited keyboard size really doesn't matter, from what I understand, they have around 50 phonics that can build up to 300 characters.... Who cares about selling in Japan, just sell them in the United States!!! Sell them in Canada! Commodore should hire a few Japanese people, they love to keep busy, and something like this would definatly do that.... 100,000 more sales would be 100,000 more sales..Plus future impressions you leave on the users... It goes on to say in the article that anyone who gets Japanese to use thier computers in the United States has a very good chance of selling equipment to their friends when they return to Japan.... -- C-UseNet V0.42f Ronald Kushner Life in Hell BBS +1 (313) 939-6666 P.O. Box 353 14400 USR HST V.42 & V.42bis Sterling Heights, MI 48311-0353 Complete Amiga Support UUCP: uunet!umich!vela!sycom!rkushner (We are not satanic, just NUTS!) Your enemy is never a villain in his own eyes, keep this is mind.