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From: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: How is Atari doing in Germany?
Keywords: Amiga, Atari, Germany
Message-ID: <1682@netmbx.UUCP>
Date: 10 Nov 88 08:18:19 GMT
References: <706@sdcc15.ucsd.edu>
Reply-To: hase@netmbx.UUCP (Hartmut Semken)
Organization: netmbx Public Access Unix, Berlin, West Germany
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In article <706@sdcc15.ucsd.edu> pa1132@sdcc15.UUCP () writes:
>Can anyone from Germany tells us what happening there?  Is the share
>of market belonging to Atari being eaten away by the Amiga?  Atari

Atari seems to do very well over here.
The technical support for ST computers is pretty good, cause there are
lots of clever (young) people, accumulating all information about the
STs they can get (books and magazines are availeble in public libraries)
and give it to the people acually doing work with their STs.

In Germany about 70 to 80 per cent of the ST systems are monochrome
only, almost no system stay color only fo a long time (just until next
X-mas...). People seem to do work on their machines; Atari has almost
lost the image of the 2600 game.

>
>Also, can anyone from Atari tell us why Atari never releases their
>sale figures?  Is Atari ashamed of their number?  Or what?

Do not trust any statistic, you have not falsified yourself. With lots
of data and clever selection you can prove anything.

What sales figures would you like? Sold units? Profit made?

hase
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