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From: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Studebakers
Message-ID: <4400@gryphon.CTS.COM>
Date: 10 Jun 88 04:30:54 GMT
Reply-To: richard@gryphon.CTS.COM (Richard Sexton)
Organization: Trailing Edge Technology, Redondo Beach, CA
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In article <5701@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> cthulhu@athena.mit.edu (Jim Reich) writes:

cthulul@athena meet klortho@inco...oh never mind.
>Oh come on-- Commodore is improving, but own the small computer market?  Be
>serious.  Quality of the product is not, and never will be the determining
>factor in sales.


It is unfortunate, but truer words were never spoken.

A wise man recently said "Quality and success in the marketplace
have very little to do with each other. The best selling American
car was the Ford Pinto. The best built American car was the Studebaker
Avanti."

I am in fear for the Amiga. After making quite a splash 3 years ago
with things like multi-tasking and video in/genlock at unprecedented
prices - affordable to the average joe, we are now at a point
where apple and ibm are making inroads with new OS's - lets not kid
ourselves, they'll get them to work; new graphics adapters; apple
is allegedly working on a blitter for the MAC TOO. If that puppy
gets cheap, has a blitter and its 16 milion color mode can be
had for < $3, whats an amiga good for ?

And then there is the point that anything yu can slap a targa/truevision
board in is serious competition.

As I see it, the Amiga, to remain competative, has to be cheaper or
have higher performence than any of these.

As a related question, given you had ONE improvement you would make
to the amiga, what would it be ? 

To tie these together: more colors. Truecolor (8 bits per...) and
still at Commodore's rock bottom prices can beat any of that other
slime.


Almost any peripheral can be had, UNIX doesn't buy you anything, but
24 bits per pixel in a CONSUMER PRODUCT at a reasonable price would be a
first.

Quick. Before somebody else does it.


-- 
                "Live by the lawn dart, die by the lawn dart."
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