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From: peter@sugar.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: upgrades and standards, this time without the flames
Message-ID: <954@sugar.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 31-Oct-87 08:30:48 EST
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Posted: Sat Oct 31 08:30:48 1987
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Summary: How to discourage SOTS boxes.

Commodore:

	You say you wanted to discourage SOTS boxes. Yet you didn't
	provide an alternative. It was quite a while before expansion
	boxes became available, you know. And when they did they tended
	to be priced about as high *by themsleves* as a cheap SOTS
	memory expansion.

	If you really wanted to discourage SOTS, you should have come
	out with a relatively inexpensive Zorro box very soon after you
	started shipping the computer.

	But you ignored the laws of the market, in this case that bad
	money drives out good. It's cheaper to build a box that just
	gives you extra memory (which is what most people wanted anyway)
	than to build an expansion box as well as the memory card.

	Picture yourself as Joe User who's just bought an Amiga. Are you
	going to pay $500 to go up to a meg, or $1000?

	Well, perhaps it's not too late to correct the situation. Or to
	keep it from happening to the 500.
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