Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!gatech!cbosgd!gwe From: gwe@cbosgd.ATT.COM (George Erhart) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Amiga's Enemy: Another View Message-ID: <3611@cbosgd.ATT.COM> Date: Fri, 15-May-87 10:43:46 EDT Article-I.D.: cbosgd.3611 Posted: Fri May 15 10:43:46 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 16-May-87 23:36:36 EDT References: <487@gryphon.CTS.COM> <1757@vax135.UUCP> <2287@tekgvs.TEK.COM> Reply-To: gwe@cbosgd.UUCP (George Erhart) Organization: AT&T Network Systems , Columbus, OH Lines: 61 Keywords: pirating, advertising In article <2287@tekgvs.TEK.COM> keithe@tekgvs.UUCP (Keith Ericson) writes: >In article <1757@vax135.UUCP> cjp@vax135.UUCP (Charles Poirier) writes: >>...Amiga's Enemy has to >>be whoever-it-is at Commodore (or, potentially, I hope, someone >>recently departed from Commodore) who decided not to Advertise. >>No one (non-Amiga-owners) knows a damn thing about the Amiga and what >>it can do. > >Hear, hear! (or is that "here, here?" "Hear here? Anyway...) > > ...Most folks can only just barely _spell_ Amiga! Come ON, C=, >get your act together and PUBLICIZE the thing before your better >mousetrap is relegated to the "it WAS a good idea" category. ... Absofarginglutely ! (Warning ! Impending personal anecdote ... assume boredom positions) When I bought my Amiga last October, I had to choose between it and upgrading my Apple //e to the brand-new Apple // Gee-Whiz. As it turned out, I could trade in my //e for a 512K, 2 drive, color //gs, or keep the //e, buy a similar Amiga system, and have enough left over for a 1200baud modem and some software! But I would never have considered it if a friend (hi, Drew!) hadn't had one (and raved about it, and forced me to stare at demo after demo, and forced me to spend hours playing with it, and.... :-). I doubt I would have even heard about it as anything other than "that new commodore machine". Even knowing about it, I was severely disappointed with the salespeople at most of the local stores; hell, *I* knew more about the machine than most of them, even then ! I asked one of them "How much of the software supports multitasking ?"; he replied "Multi-tasking ? What's that ?" Why should a computer *user* think twice about a machine he's never heard of, made by a toy company, and being sold by a salesperson who doesn't understand any machine that won't run Wordstar (tm or something, dammit !) ? Nothing kills a sale faster than a Guru crash on a demo program (due to an incompetent demonstrator). The problem is, the Amiga isn't easy to use until you understand it, and it takes a while to understand it. This is mostly because it can *do* so much. But if the salespeople aren't competent with the box, they can't begin to justify it to the cautious shopper. It's up to Commodore to 1) Tell people just how great this thing really is (ADVERTISE, dad-blastit!) and 2) Make sure their "registered" dealers are really qualified to sell it. Carol, George, etc, at Commodore Engineering : Do any of the policy-making types at C-A read this net ? (or the Wall Street Journal :-( ) If not, would you get in trouble for forwarding some of these messages to them ? Hell, the readers of this group have suggested ads, even written the scripts, and suggested casting roles ! What else can *we* do ? ------------------------------clip and save---------------------------------- Bill Thacker cbatt!cbosgd!gwe DISCLAIMER: Farg 'em if they can't take a joke ! "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think." (from my latest fortune cookie) (how does one properly reference a fortune cookie ?) -----------------------------valuable coupon---------------------------------