Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!sunybcs!bingvaxu!leah!uwmcsd1!ig!jade!web6f.berkeley.edu!c60a-2ae From: c60a-2ae@web6f.berkeley.edu.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Atari's Marketing Approach Message-ID: <6166@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: Thu, 3-Dec-87 21:21:31 EST Article-I.D.: jade.6166 Posted: Thu Dec 3 21:21:31 1987 Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 20:32:30 EST References: <8711301706.AA18559@cory.Berkeley.EDU> <899@atari.UUCP> <909@cod.NOSC.MIL> Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: c60a-2ae@web6f.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (John Kawakami -O^O-) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 27 Keywords: listen Atari Atari, I don't buy the excuse that you are advertising vid games because you have lots of them and are not advertising computers because supply is low. I say advertise to make the product known. I think that aside from atari and commodore owners and general computer enthusiasts, not too many people know how powerful the ST is. This was almost the case with the Amiga until commode started advertising it. Unless atari starts to focus on advertising computers, they will be seen as a vid game company. Chances are, even folks who do own computers know what exactly the ST is. This is especially true of _users_ of apple and ibm machines (probably less so of clones). They might not even read Byte (gasp!). There must be millions of people out there who think the Macintosh is the only "turn your home into a home office" machine. Some may even think that Macs and IBMs are reasonably priced! Combat system stupidity Atari. ADVERTISE!!! John Kawakami +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ | JoHn KaWaKaMi alias spectacle -O^O- alias c60a-2ae@widow.berkley.edu | +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+