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From: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga 1000 buy-back & changing standards...
Message-ID: <2578@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 22-Oct-87 13:06:45 EST
Article-I.D.: cbmvax.2578
Posted: Thu Oct 22 13:06:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 25-Oct-87 01:43:22 EST
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Reply-To: hedley@cbmvax.UUCP (Hedley Davis)
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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>>Gee, what a neat buy-back program. Something else to leave me stuck
>>with obsolete hardware.
>
>Yeah, I'm pretty disenchanted with Comode-or myself.

You guys MUST be kidding !

I bought a VCR a long time ago.
It doesn't have HQ.
It doesn't have MTS.
It doesn't have eighty gizillion nice features.

Nobody offered me an upgrade on that.

The car I bought several years ago is not as nice as the new ones.
Its upgrade is no better than the a1000->a2000.

My five year old calculator has no upgrade policy.

Whats the deal ? I guess if you were running things, we'd have consumer
protection groups making so that you had to upgrade everything for free.
Of course this would cause the cost of innovation to exceed any
potential benifits, leading to a complete halt in any effort to
innovate.

The price of buying electronics today is that they depreciate. Better 
electronics will be available in the future at a better price.

Inherently, the A2000 has many more capabilities than the A1000. 
The fact we offer any upgrade at all does not alter the fact that your
machine still runs, and does everything we said it would as well as we
would. You bought something, and you got a fair deal.

The upgrade is not on a par with the second coming. We do not claim
this. However, it IS pure gravy. It gives you an option. We are under
no obligation to offer this. Its a pretty damn nice thing to do.

I'm sorry you don't like the basic realities of buying something, and
having something better come along later. Perhaps a discussion of
the inherent faults of innovation and improvement should be moved
to comp.stone.age or net.electonics.tube or net.count.with.sticks.

Hedley Davis