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From: austin@cs.odu.edu (Jason C Austin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Loneliness in the Atari World?
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Date: 23 Dec 89 23:00:49 GMT
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In article <21566@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Chris Roth) writes:
>The thing I want to know about Atari, that NOBODY has been able to
>explain to me so far, is why it seems to be ignoring the US?  WHY dont
>we have good advertising?  Why dont we have good support?  WHY can't
>the few dealers we have out there seem to get the products in any
>reasonable length of time?  What is the problem?  The ST is a great
>machine, and  I am happy I have one, but I am angry at the way the ST
>users are treated.  Any questions/comments?
>From: cr1@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Christopher Roth)
>Path: beach.cis.ufl.edu!cr1

	I think the reason is just simple economics from Atari's point
of view.  The ST has had a much better selling rate in the European
market; therefore, the demand for additional hardware and software is
higher.  Logically, Atari is going to spend most of its advertising
and distrubution dollars where the demand is.  This is unfortunate for
US ST owners, but the company needs to do what it can to survive.

				-Jason(austin@cs.odu.edu)