Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!njin!limonce From: limonce@pilot.njin.net (Tom Limoncelli) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Apple's [in]famous system 7.0 for the Macintosh Keywords: announcement of intent to announce Message-ID: Date: 13 May 89 04:42:39 GMT References: <1626@neoucom.UUCP> Organization: NJ InterCampus Network, New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 31 What we're seeing is the newest kind of marketing. Rumors! Yes, this release will be read by enough people in the wrong places so as to make them think that it's shipping. Take your average person that's not 100% "into computers". They read the article and forget about it. Three months later they recall "yeah, didn't the Mac do this fancy feature?" I am convinced of this now that I just got off the phone that argued for almost an hour that the original Mac had color. I think it was the logic that "any successful computer must be able to do color, duh, right?" I think that C-A should do a press release that in five years the Amiga will be able to be completely driven by ESP. That way in three months hordes of people will go out buying them because, "gosh, I remember something about it and ESP... it must be GREAT!" People still come to me asking why I don't run Lotus on my Amiga; they don't believe me when I tell them that it's not IBM compatable. They heard about the BridgeBoard when the A2000 was released and didn't remember that it was an option. Of course, at the time they must have thought that it was an option... but everyone would buy it right anyway, eh? Ergo, they assume that I would have one. Recently the owner of the computer store that I bought my Amiga 2000 from exclaimed, "You mean you *don't* have a BridgeBoard?" Ah, the common people (read: "Ah, the non-techies") :^) -- Tom Limoncelli -- tlimonce@drunivac.Bitnet -- limonce@pilot.njin.net Drew University -- Box 1060, Madison, NJ -- 201-408-5389 Standard Disclaimer: I am not the mouth-piece of Drew University