#Commodore Liquidation
02-May-94 00:27:11
Sb: #142036-#Commodore Liquidation
Fm: Andrew Carol 71350,3646
To: Chris Lester 73553,1670
> And 16 meg (NT) to accomplish what my Amiga does in 512k does not
> constitute "clean" to me. I realize there are differences to justify
> a size difference between the OS's, but not 15.5 megs worth of it.
I suspect you fail to understand what people are doing with these boxes. The
vertical and mainstream applications that the business world run, take up a lot
of space. Sure there is a lot of bloat, but people are asking a lot out of
their software for business that home owners don't think about. Besides,
memory is cheap!
Even the Amiga see's this when people do 3D stuff, having 16M or 32M Amigas in
not uncommon.
It's just OS/2 is used more in business while most Amigas are home machines.
Before the flames start, please note I said most, not all!
> On a side, should someone pick up the technology, this could
> feasibly be a second chance for the system. An Intel/PowerPC
> split it likely, and the window for a third party to jump in
> and grab marketshares does exist.
The odds are as close to zero as we can calculate. Who has the 100's of
millions it would take? Who has that much money and is foolish enough to blow
it on such a long shot?
> With the Amiga already winning Emmy's and producing graphics for
> prime-time, it stand to pull out… if someone with brains picks
> it up.
People don't buy a computer because their favorite TV show was made with it.
The _vast_ majority of people buy them for three basic reasons…
1) A friend they trust recommends one.
2) They have them at work or school.
3) They go to a computer store and ask a stupic clerk what they need.
The only likely Amiga connection there is item one.
The reason Amiga can't jump in and gain market share is simple economics. If I
had the $200 million it would take to sell the Amiga correctly, I could just as
easily make cheap PC clones and sell them. I would have lower costs and be
assured of a higher payoff.
The Amiga _deserves_ to succeed, but Commodre droped the ball five years ago,
and it would have been almost impossible to turn around since.
—— Andrew