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[News] Amiga lowering A1200 pricesANN.lu
Posted on 23-Mar-2000 13:14 GMT by Christian Kemp21 comments
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The newsticker at the German Amiga shop AS WebShop reports that Amiga International is lowering prices for A1200's and quote DM 199 and DM 249 as their respective retail prices for A1200's without HD and with 170 MB HD.
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Amiga lowering A1200 prices : Comment 21 of 21ANN.lu
Posted by Watts Martin on 25-Mar-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 20 (ZimZum):
Actually, the Osborne (no "u") theory doesn't have to do with dumping your old stock, precisely; it has to do with not pre-announcing products.
Back in the era where CP/M was "the" business operating system, Osborne Computer made a computer called the Osborne 1, a portable (by the day's standards) CP/M machine about the size of a suitcase with an integrated CRT, disk drive and keyboard. It sold like hotcakes, for a while, until other people started making similar machines with better features (notably the Kaypro 4 and the TRS-80 Model 4P). So Osborne announced, with full-color ads and full-color product brochures, their next-generation portable, the Osborne Vixen.
The problem was that they were a small company, and the Vixen proved harder to get into production than their unrealistically fast schedule allowed for--and with the Vixen "just around the corner" in the eyes of their audience, there was no reason for customers not to wait. Osborne's revenue stream flatlined and they were left without the resources to get the Vixen out the door.
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