Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cbmvax!daveh
From: daveh@cbmvax.UUCP (Dave Haynie)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: The Amiga is loosing ground to I*M and A*ple...
Message-ID: <4517@cbmvax.UUCP>
Date: 18 Aug 88 22:20:24 GMT
References: <253@aeras.UUCP>
Organization: Commodore Technology, West Chester, PA
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in article <253@aeras.UUCP>, edc@aeras.UUCP (news guest account) says:
> Keywords: Sad

> Just who are Amiga's competitors anyway?  It sure ain't Apple and Sun...
> I question if IBM worries about them.

I don't know who worries, but you're being annoyingly American in this 
analysis.  Commodore sells more PERSONAL COMPUTERs in Europe than Apple, and
more PERSONAL COMPUTERs in Germany than IBM.  Or Sun, for that matter.
Over 1/2 of these are Amigas.  Poof!

> Damn interesting machine though.  The sh*t will really hit the fan if 
> when Apple drops the price of the MacII.  I suspect that CBM is lose it
> in about a year or two.  Atari won't let Amiga be.  Sam and Jack want 
> blood...

Atari's certainly BEEN letting Amiga be.  Not to mention most of their
customers.  Considering Amiga software sales are up 84% over last year,
while Atari ST sales are down around 45%, I think a few other folks have
noticed this too.

> By the way? anybody got sales figures for Word Perfect on the Amiga?

They sold enough copies of Word Perfect quickly, like in it's first month
on the market, to pay for the Amiga port.  I use it myself; nice word
processor (fast, that's what counts here).

> -edc-
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