[News] The "I Am Amiga" promotion has ended! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 26-Jul-2002 10:41 GMT by et | 134 comments View flat View list |
And the total is.. 940. Not bad.
"Countdown to the draw: The promotion has ended. Coupon count may still rise as third party dealers submit their sales. Winners will be announced soon."
.. So, we could well make the 1000 mark, well done people, I hope you all order AmigaOnes as soon as they are available :)
et
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Posted by Steve Folberg on 26-Jul-2002 12:57 GMT | In reply to Comment 9 (Marcus Sundman): Well, I don't think it's next to nothing. After all, this 940 (plus however many other memberships were sold by KDH, Compuquick, and so on) is a pretty "elite" group. These are folks who:
1) Have the $50 to spend
2) Are willing to give that $50 to Amiga, Inc., as a sort of downpayment on a product that hasn't shipped yet and which -- I'm guessing -- won't ship much before the end of the year.
So, if you define these people as "hardcore fans with a spare $50 lying around," I'd imagine that there's another tier just "below" this group that didn't order (yet) because money is tighter for them and they don't have the $50 to spend on something that's not a sure thing in their eyes. They're waiting to see a real, functioning A1 running 4.0, have some money set aside for this purpose, and will order when they see a real, working machine.
Next, you have the people who perhaps remember their Amigas fondly, are skeptical that the A1 will ever see the light of day, but, like the above group, might buy an A1 when they see it working.
So, my guess would be that there will be, over the course of the next year, at least several thousand customers for the A1.
Before you ridicule this, remember that Amiga, for all their stops and starts, is trying to pull off something so difficult here as to be nearly ridiculous: to (re)launch an alternative computing platform in a Windows PC dominated world. Furthermore, they are trying to do this via a coalition of tiny little companies and part-time contract workers. And in a terrible economic climate -- PARTICULARLY in the technology sector.
Alan Redhouse has made it clear that Eyetech isn't looking to make a fortune on this, just a profit. And I bet that he will.
More power to all of them, I say.
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