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From: hue@netcom.UUCP (Johathan Hue)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Why the Amiga is hard to sell
Message-ID: <5168@netcom.UUCP>
Date: 14 Dec 89 08:43:52 GMT
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(Apologies if this subject has been beaten to death).

You wanna know what holds back the sales of Amigas?  Consider this:  The first
question someone interested in the Amiga asks you is "Where is the
nearest Amiga dealer?"  Out here the local Amiga dealer, HT Electronics is
pretty good.  Okay, what's the second question?  The second question is
usually, "What's a good Amiga magazine?"

The answer, as you all probably know, there isn't one.  Let's see what we've
got.  Amiga World.  Yes, it looks slick from the outside, and there are a lot
of good ads.  But what do we find in the January issue?  Lets see, how about
the review of Cross-Dos.  "I found CrossDOS challenging to use until I had
committed its procedures to memory."  This stupid f**k is writing for an Amiga
magazine and can't figure out how to edit his mountlist and startup sequence???
Or is he saying that copy, delete, and rename are pretty tough to remember?
Even worse was the editor's ranting about the NeXT in a recent issue.

Or Amazing Computing, written by amazingly stupid people.  In a recent issue
the following sentence actually appeared: "Here you have to remember that with
computers 0 is considered something when actually 0 is nothing! (I can't figure
that one out)"

Yes, there is Transactor for the Amiga, which is good when it actually gets
published, though perhaps a bit too technical for the average Amiga user.

It is quite easy for one to assume the Amiga is nothing more than a toy,
given the amateurish quality of the two most popular Amiga publications.
A good magazine should be able to make a toy look like a tool.  Instead,
these magazines make a tool look like a toy.

Amiga - it attracts the best...and the worst.

-Jonathan