Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Xorg From: Xorg@cup.portal.com (Peter Ted Szymonik) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Apathy and Defeatism Message-ID: <21255@cup.portal.com> Date: 14 Aug 89 01:00:39 GMT References: <21183@cup.portal.com> <89223.101222SML108@PSUVM> Distribution: na Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 11 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!