#Blitz Disk – Where?
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Sounds like a load of sour grapes to me, Perry. Blitzdisk addresses hard
drives – FACC II does not. That makes it more than just a little
competative. Your stated reasons (if I remember this right) for not
supporting hard drives was the SDP. Since the SDP has faded into the
backround [as I said it would, since in my opinion the numbers you were
throwing about were unobtainable] perhaps you'll reconsider and add that
feature. If not, seem (seems) to me that Charlie doesn't know what he's
doing, in the sense that BlitzDisk is ahead of FACC II at least in that
area. And for HD users, that's the only area that counts. –Ben–
BlitzDisk is ahead technically, yes, by having hard disk support, but
there's a lot more to bringing a product to market than having a technical
advantage. I spent about a week doing the technical work for BlitzDisk;
bringing a product to market takes about 2 months of publishing_type work
plus something like $10K expenditures; for a $30-ish product, that would
require about 2000 sales to break even, and a commitment to support for
about a year, at a time when there were probably only 2000 hard-disk owners
in the whole Amiga universe and with Commodore hypothetically releasing a
fast-filesystem last February or so that would make the product obsolete.
Microsmiths is a technically oriented company that does most of it's work
consulting for other companies, rather than publishing, so though it might
appear that I "don't know what I'm doing" it is from my point of view
better to avoid wasting time in a purely publising venture which pre-empts
other technical work, when the publishing venture is on shaky ground and
has a fairly limited upside potential. …cheath