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From: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga: A market analysis
Message-ID: <1180@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 7-Jun-87 07:33:08 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1180
Posted: Sun Jun  7 07:33:08 1987
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Reply-To: kent@xanth.UUCP (Kent Paul Dolan)
Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Summary: An answer to: Target what market niche?

Steve,
	Really excellent analysis, and right on the money.  The answer to
	your last question (whom should Commodore target) was implicit in
	what you wrote, and is part of my guess that the A2000 won't do
	nearly as well as the A1000.
	
	Commodore should target the technofreaks, again!  Instead of bringing
	out compatibility with the outdated IBM PC (who cares - I wouldn't have
	had one when they were new - no innovations!), and turning off the
	technophiles, Commodore should 	have concentrated on a 68020/68881/mmu
	true 32 bit machine, running 25 MHz with about 4 meg of memory
	standard, better color (at least 780 x 512, and preferably 1024 x 780)
	and more color (9 or 12 bit planes), better sound (12 bit resolution,
	4 or 8 channel, faster sample rate, built in MIDI (why not use the
	standard?)); a long persistance monitor so folks would stop bitching
	about the flicker; SCSI built in so cheap hard disks could be had, and
	a cleaned up operating system a bit closer to UNIX.  If they could
	have brought this in at $3000 or even $3500, most of us who bought the
	A1000 would have been beating down the door to get in, and the
	engineering workstation types would have been running roughshod over
	our backs to beat us to the cash register.
	
	Poor as I am, I really wasn't paying much attention to price when I
	bought Amy, and I doubt the rest of the crowd was, either.  Why do
	you suppose that Commodore brought out an "upgrade" that ignored the
	one market they had successfully penetrated?
Kent.
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