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From: nick@hp-sdd.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: A1000 -> A2000 expansion box?
Message-ID: <761@hp-sdd.HP.COM>
Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 01:18:55 EST
Article-I.D.: hp-sdd.761
Posted: Tue Mar 17 01:18:55 1987
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Reply-To: nick@hp-sdd.UUCP (Nick Flor)
Organization: Hewlett Packard, San Diego
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In article <17870@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> robinson@renoir.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Michael Robinson) writes:
>
>Yeah, Commodore should subsidize the expansion and make their customers
>happy.  And they should give out free lollipops with their upgrades and
>make at least one customer even happier!  Just think about how happy they
>could make their customers if they included a years worth of free ice cream
>cones!
>

I'll try to refrain from calling you names, but the fact of the matter is
that my idea of subsidizing because it will:

a) make current amiga 1000 owners happier, thus keeping a large customer
   base.
b) enable amiga1000->2000 owners to buy the latest hardware, thus generating
   extra revenues for both 3rd party hardware vendors and commodore.

is a reasonable / plausible one.  Naturally, a thorough cost/benefit analysis 
must be made.  But Commodore is a great company.  I see no reason why
they can't come up with some sort of subsidy.

Your idiotic sarcastic statement just proves that ... (nah, I won't say
it)

What YOUR saying is that they should forget about the tens of thousands 
(or more) of Amiga 1000 owners.  I mean, gee, if you can't afford the
new 2000 -- too bad.  If you can't afford to upgrade -- too bad.
Customers are a necessary evil, right?  Companies should just sell
neat whiz-bang products and the customer should be happy with what
he gets NOW.

I'd hate to be in business with you.

Have you taken economics?  Will you look at the IBM PC and ask yourself
how such a relatively inferior machine (technologically wise) can stay
around for such a long time and eat up most of the PC market?

>Because no one wanted to sound like the whining snivelers in comp.sys.atari.st.

Oh, I guess we should all just chuck our computers when something new
and better comes by.  Money is nothing right?

>
>>Nick V. Flor 
>>The Iconoclast
>
>Mr. Flor, can you say "planned obsolescence?"  If you can, just be glad you
>didn't buy it when you bought your Amiga, and grow up.

Grow up Mike.  It's far nicer for me to post a semi-humorous article
than to flame Commodore for not subsidizing this box (Which was
my first choice).  Immature people like you who fail to see attempts
at being nice and post sarcastic nonsense without substance in reply, 
should get a life.

Nick "No more Mr. Nice Guy" Flor
-- 
+ Disclaimer: The above opinions are my own, not necessarily my employers'.
/ Nick V. Flor / ..hplabs!hp-sdd!nick / Hewlett Packard, San Diego Division
* "What's going down in this world, you got no idea.  Believe me."-The Comedian
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