Posted on 15-Jul-2003 12:55 GMT by Lewis Mistreated | 160 comments View flat View list |
Amiga Inc. started out a competition giving the chance to graphix artists to see their pics published on the forthcoming AmigaOS 4.0 cd.
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Posted by Anonymous on 16-Jul-2003 11:49 GMT | In reply to Comment 82 (smp266): The retailers have no one but themselves to blame for sinking Amiga.
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Come on there were many reasons outside of the retailers for sinking the Amiga. I'm not saying all retailers were free of blame. However, retailers need to make money too. I don't know what price C=/Escom sold the Amiga to the retailers at but if it was above the Pentium pricing then the reatils still have to mark up so they make a bit of money and can sell more software/hardware to you in the future. Thus, the $2K price is probably not an issue to blame on the retailers but on the owner C=/Escom.
Also, there were lots of other reasons - Advertising, business infiltration, marketshare, quality of applications, and mistakes by C=.
Here's one good example: The makers of Star Trek wanted and Amiga computer to be shown as the near future of computing. They needed it for a couple of months of filming. Commodore told them to go out and buy one. They then went to Apple. Apple provided them a computer and a person to help them out for the couple of months. So, instead of seeing Scotty talk into an Amiga Mouse trying to wake up the computer by saying 'Computer' you see him talking into an Apple Macintosh system. Free advertising can go a long way. |
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