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From: amichel@neabbs.UUCP (MICHEL LANGEREIS)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Inter-active systems, new market ?
Message-ID: <195156@neabbs.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 89 23:18:00 GMT
Organization: NEABBS multi-line BBS +31-20-717666 (13x), Amsterdam, Holland
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   I sincerely hope the flame wars are over now, lets bring in a topic
   I haven't seen discussed past two years.
 
   Did anyone do some research in the inter-active market ?
 
   By inter-active I think information posts with touch screens alike.
   With products like UltraCard and CanDo hitting the market (or RSN ;)
   it becomes very easy to create the software with a minimum of time
   involved.  For example, you can create lots of standard interface
   modules who will fit in almost every project you get assigned to.
   You'll only have to put the 'information' the customer wants in it and
   built some custom made things around it.
 
   Thats a lot cheaper as programming every project you get assigned to
   over and over again, so thats one point why it can be interesting.
   Some other things I thought about, when you come in a shop to buy
   lets say a waterbed.. most customers get an overload of info over
   them with the result they leave, think at home to look at all the
   documentation they got and MAYBE come back. A better way of doing it
   is to provide the customer a small portion of info, just what he/she/they
   is/are interested in and in such a case whats better to put them to a
   screen to let them make their choice by theirselfs ? Via a touch-screen
   Amiga combo ofcourse..  pictures from people on waterbeds floating all
   over the screen, animated ofcourse ;-)
 
   Now what about touch-screens and laser disks for the Amiga, are they
   availble ? I know there was some sort of inter-active Amiga system
   developed once and it was called The Mandala system but never ever
   heard a tinny little bit about it.
 
   Why laserdisks, sure you could probaly take a BIG harddrive but the
   system must be a 120 percent relaible and since many people will be
   pointing at anything they see and maybe hit a few times to the side if
   things aren't going fast enough its not a good idea to put a HD in it.
 
   And don't forget the educational market, all those kids in front of
   Amiga's (sold by former Apple and now C-A employees :-) pointing away
   through their things.
 
   My personal view is this market is going to explode in a year or two,
   Apple and IBM already marked this blank spot on the map so what
   about us ?
 
 
  -* Michel
 
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