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From: lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu (Laurana Bailey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Commodore Business Machines
Message-ID: <7589@vela.acs.oakland.edu>
Date: 28 Jun 91 05:18:20 GMT
References: <1991Jun24.003834.4258@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <7515@vela.acs.oakland.edu> <5508@network.ucsd.edu>
Organization: Lemming-Aid 1992 - Benefit Concert To Save The Lemmings
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In article <5508@network.ucsd.edu> simon@ivem1.uucp (Simon) writes:
| >They're going to have to find the money from someplace. Ever heard the
| >phrase: "You have to spend money to make money?"
| >
| >Laurana
| >|lmbailey@vela.acs.oakland.edu  | couldn't get any worse.              |
| 
| Does that mean you're going to help finance them? :^)  And not just
| 1 or 5 Amigas being bought.  It's easy to say "they need to find the
| money" but it's a little harder to get it, especially with the tight
| budget times we're in right now.  CBM is just like you and me, they
| have a limited budget and funding.  They can't just go and pump money
| they don't have into R&D or into customer support or other limited
| areas, but they have to distribute it into many different areas in
| order to make the company work.  I believe they're working on many
| of the problems you are addressing, but it's not an overnight thing.
| It takes time, maybe years, but if one or two people start bailing
| out because of their short term goals or lack of, then CBM is sure
| to crumble.  Marc needs to see that, as goes for the other people
| who feel that CBM isn't doing their best.  Wait a while and see.
| Who knows, CBM may end up beating Mac in sales, just as did the C64.
| CBM is a "home computer company" while the others are "big business"
| companies.  With that kind of a label, it's gonna take CBM a while
| to become established as something more than just the average user's
| computer company.

To most non-Amiga folk, the Amiga is a game machine, not a home
computer. A low-cost IBM clone is a home computer or a Sega Genesis
depending on orientation of the family involved. 

Wait awhile? I've been waiting over 4 years. Isn't that long enough?
Be nice to see some major improvements before the end of the new
decade. I realize that Commodore doesn't have as much money as Apple
or IBM, but Amiga Inc managed to put together the first Amiga in less
than 3 years. Why don't they get Jay Miner back and have him whip up
some new chip sets? I'm certain that if he could work miracles once he
could do it again. Who do you know that would be better?

I don't mind waiting as long as I SEE something every now and then. I
have yet to see 2.0 outside of an A3000 yet let alone a major
improvement to the graphics and sound.

Laurana



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