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From: jtreworgy@eagle.wesleyan.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: My AmigaDOS 1.4 wishlist
Message-ID: <455@eagle.wesleyan.edu>
Date: 10 Aug 89 14:01:40 GMT
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In article <16163@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>, johnhlee@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Vince Lee) writes:
> 
> What I want to see is auto-shrinking of icons in interlace so I don't have
> to edit EVERY GODDAMN ICON on EVERY DISK that I get!
> 
> One of the biggest problems with the Amiga is that most of the developers 
> I know have absolutely NO artistic talent.  The Amiga Topaz font and 
> "insert workbench" hand are constant painful reminders of this.  Although
> the Amiga is a great machine, what most people see is the incredibly 
> cheezy-looking workbench with its C64-looking icons.  When they compare
> this with the sleek, professional-looking Mac with its sharp, crisp text
> and icons, it's no wonder Amiga's penetration into the business market is
> near nill.
> 

The cheezy looking workbench hand is no more on my Kickstart disk. Neither is
topaz. But I don't think that the workbench itself is cheezy looking. Maybe
commodore shoudl make an alternate workbench (maybe SnoreBench?) where every
icon for a directory looks like a folder and everything is black & white (or
green and white?) and so on. ... also I don't think the way the AMiga looks has
much to do with it's business market penetration. Look at the Mac, it somehow
managed to penetrate the business market with a 6 inch screen! I get headaches
every time I have to use one of those miserable machines. When you turn it on,
you see a picture of a Mac smiling at you!!! Yuck.
 
> What I'm saying is this:  I don't wan't shrinking of icons
> just to make my own workbench look better.  That misses the point completely.
> I think shrinking of icons would make the Amiga look more professional to 
> people considering purchasing an Amiga instead of a Mac or Clone, and that
> would make it all worthwhile.

People aren't often trying to decide between a Mac and a clone. I don't think
anyone would choose a mac over an Amiga because of the way it looks. Have you
ever been to a computer store that doesn't specialize in Amigas? I mean, one
that sells everything (macs, pcs, and Amigas). The Amiga is almost always
sitting in a corner gathering dust. You go in there without knowing anything.
You say you want something to manage a huge inventory, they sell you a PC. You
say you want something easy to use to run a small business (we tried to use a
mac to manage a huge inventory, forget it... that thing is pathetic) or do
smaller scale computing, and you know nothing about computers, they sell you a
mac. You have to practically force them to sell you an Amiga. It's because they
don't know anything about the machine, and don't care. The only good Amiga
dealerships are the small (not large chain) stores that are run by someone who
hasn't been using PC's for five years. And business owners don't shop there.

-- 
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