IN MEMORIUM…ODE TO CBM
2 messages in this thread
RE: "DUMB marketing mistakes"
You would rather that they just start selling it overseas without saying a word
here in the good 'ole US of A. I can hear the screams now …Big headlines:
COMMODORE ABANDONS THE USA
AMIGA DEAD in USA "Yeah, Commodore really %*##^$ up this time, they abandoned
their BIGGEST market for their new machine. I don't know why we deal with them.
Well, they'll never sell another computer in MY store or MY city" quote from
Michael Daugherty, manager of xyz computer store here in HomeTown USA.
Yeah, I can hear it alright. IF IT'S YOUR GOVERNMENT THAT'S SLOWING THINGS
DOWN, THEN BITCH TO THEM. Not to me, and I have to pay to read it too.
Give it a break, Michael….there's a whole world out there that doesn't
give a d*mn what the FCC says or thinks….we're the ones stuck with them. I
have to admit some puzzlement however, last time I read the VDE (German) specs,
they seemed harder to meet than ours (my memory is probably going).
Vic,
My whole reasoning on this thing was that I wasn't seeing CBM changing any
of their ways. It seems that they are blessed in many ways. If Ed Lippert
announced that C-LTD was coming out with a 20 meg SCSI hard drive for under
$500, and then made the excuse that it couldn't get past the FCC, I am sure
people would think less of him and his company than they do. CBM has to listen
to its customers to find out how they view what their doing. And, by the way,
there are ways for me to tone down my "warpage", however, they involve turning
the contrast and brightness to such low levels, that most "light" colors no
longer show on my screen! I have given up trying to get anyone to figure this
one out, unless someone "really technical with the AMIGA somehow comes up with
the problem." It is hard to solve a problem you can't see on your own system,
which is how some of the guys and gals who help out around here have seen with
this one. Maybe I should take my machine to PA, and plop it down for free
demonstrations in CBM's lobby?! (Hey, now that's not a bad idea!<grin>) Mike