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From: rick@sbcs.sunysb.edu (Rick Spanbauer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Amiga - what *is* the machines market definition?
Summary: marketing
Keywords: marketing, market definition, future
Message-ID: <2831@sbcs.sunysb.edu>
Date: 15 May 89 22:28:34 GMT
References: <2823@sbcs.sunysb.edu> <104857@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>
Organization: State University of New York at Stony Brook
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In article <104857@sun.Eng.Sun.COM>, page%swap@Sun.COM (Bob Page) writes:
> Sounds like you want to ask CBM, not comp.sys.amiga.  I suggest you
> use the channel that already exists for just this purpose - the
> amiga.dev/market.info conference.

	Already have asked CBM, Bob.  No answers of substance, eg demographic
	breakdown of systems sold, what applications are run, etc.  Just
	the two statements cited in the original posting.
	
> I *know* not everybody has access to BIX, and I *know* not everybody
> likes it (user interface, cost, what have you).  But when you're
> making decisions on bringing Amiga products to market, you have to ask
> where your questions can get answered, rather than multitude of
> ill-informed opinions you get from Usenet.

	Actually I would not be so quick to condemn the Usenet response.  If
	nothing else is represents more of a cross section of users than
	the heavily developer oriented BIX forums.  Any developer (myself
	included) is guilty of occasionally viewing the Amiga market with
	rose colored glasses.  In this case, I truly want to hear from the
	trenches.

> ..bob

					Rick Spanbauer
					SUNY/Stony Brook