GENERAL
Seconding Betty's point: The vendors of educational software for the Apple
series are not being 'very secretive', but are merely selling their wares
directly to the schools, or via dedicated educational softare distributors,
not in your store. The fact that 'popular' commercial software is drying up
for the Apple series in your store has little to do with what schools are
purchasing or doing.
OTOH, let's look at the educational software situation for Amigas: The
Summer '91 Amazing Computing Guide to the Amiga has *11* pages of
educational software; educators currently select from whole CATALOGS of
Apple II educational software. The MECC library alone would be many times
the size of the entire volume available on the Amiga! I'd also question
the suitability of much of those 11 pages of Amiga 'educational' software
for the classroom environment, whereas much of the Apple II software was
designed for that purpose.
Before everyone jumps in any talks 'quality' of the software; I'll concede
that much of the Apple II software is JUNKY. (but much of it is quite
good, too) However I don't think the Amiga software should cast any stones
about junky educational software, either 🙂
The fact is that schools are not going to mass-move to Amiga's in order to
use 11 pages of educational software, when they already have tons of
hardware/software they are comfortable with. Until Commodore decides that
education is a market they want to pursue, and support both vendors and
district's in that regard, it is virtually a closed door. IMHO. 🙂
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