Posted on 06-Apr-2004 07:24 GMT by Christian Kemp (Edited on 2004-04-06 10:09:44 GMT by Christian Kemp) | 1057 comments View flat View list |
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Posted by Don Cox on 08-Apr-2004 12:52 GMT | In reply to Comment 712 (Anonymous): "You must be talking about the AmigaOne. Why would Eyetech lower the price? They have a total and complete monopoly by design on "new Amiga hardware". So as long as there are fools enough to pay the 300%(+++) markup, what is their motivation to drop the price? Expand the market? They don't care about expanding the market."
So long as Eyetech are selling to the tiny Amiga market, the prices will go on being very high. But what they want is a board for industrial (non desktop) customers - that is the whole point of the "Micro" board. It is a replacement for the A1200 boards that Eyetech were using in the past.
Nobody knows whether Eyetech will succeed in opening up a market for PPC motherboards. It could be quite a big market if the selling and marketing is done right. The bigger the sales, the lower the price.
IMO there _is_ a big market, with plenty of room for both a Pegasos and an Eyetech product, but it will be very hard work getting the first sales.
The point of the Amiga market in all this is not that it buys boards but that it includes a very high proportion of developers. |
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