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From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Apathy and Defeatism
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Date: 14 Aug 89 01:00:39 GMT
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Hi Scott, although I completely agree with most of what you wrote, one
falining among most people who bad-mouth the ST is not recognizing that
unlike the Apple or MS-DOS machines, the ST was sold internationally and
like it or not, the United States was never tapped as the major market
for the ST.  Yes, Atari has been brain-dead when it comes to the U.S>
market, but that may well have been on purpose - going after and
against MS-DOS and MAC's with the multi-BILLION dollar war-chests
would hardly have been a wise business decision on the aprt of Atari.
Atari's strategy HAS also worked by the way - financially the company is
very strong and solid and 400 on the Fortune 500 list - far from an
easy achievement for a compnay that appeared a mere four years ago!