AWCTTYPA@UIAMVS.BITNET ("David A. Lyons") (03/05/89)
>Date: Sun, 5 Mar 89 00:28:32 GMT >From: David I Seah > <mailrus!ulowell!m2c!wpi!dseah@TUT.CIS.OHIO-STATE.EDU> >Subject: Re: Fool In the Rain, ALPE > >Perhaps I was hasty in drawing a "market trend" from the people I >have talked to. [...] Then our local group of GS owners sets up shop >at a computer show, in which we compete head-to-head against the >Amiga. We get blown away (in terms of interested spectators) despite >the money we've invested in top-knotch GS sound/graphics software. >[...] The number of interested spectators may not tell you a whole lot--I don't know. "Gee-whiz"ness could easily attract spectators at shows without meaning they would go out and buy the machine they spent the most time staring at at the show. A lot more info would be needed to conclude anything meaningful. (For example, maybe most of the spectators had already _seen_ GS demos, and had never seen an Amiga before.) >These conclusions were not carefully researched. However, as I talk >to more and more people in netland, I get stronger signals about what >one segment of the Apple IIGS population thinks. Do I have to take >down birthdays and social security numbers before I can make some >"silly" conclusions? I don't doubt that one segment of the population of GS owners is dumping its GSs and buying Amigas. I have no idea how large it is. Many of them will probably be disappointed to find that _every_ system has things to complain about, even if you don't notice them until you've used it for a while. I don't see how birthdays and SSNs would help. The kind of thing you _do_ need to consider is whether your sample is a fair representation of the whole population you're interested in. For example, people who are fairly happy with their existing GS systems don't usually go around explaining all the things they're happy with, while _unhappy_ people _do_ go arond complaining. Consider that a relatively small fraction of computer users even have modems. For example, only 20% of Merlin owners have modems. Since you're unlikely to come across a list of phone numbers for all GS owners or anything like that, the best obtainable info will probably come from sales figures, and maybe from things like classified ads if you keep track of them carefully enough. > | <<<<<(((((( DAVE SEAH ))))))>>>>> | Internet: dseah@wpi.wpi.edu > | Worcester Polytechnic Institute | Bitnet: dseah@wpi.bitnet > | Computer Engineering Class of '90 | ALink PE: Omnitreant --David A. Lyons bitnet: awcttypa@uiamvs DAL Systems CompuServe: 72177,3233 P.O. Box 287 GEnie mail: D.LYONS2 North Liberty, IA 52317 AppleLinkPE: Dave Lyons
RXBROWN@UALR.BITNET ("MR.FANTASTIC") (03/06/89)
TO: Dave Lyons..... You tell'em Dave. I do some complaining too, but thats because I want more for my machine. Also tell him about the type of software that somes out for the two machines. The Amiga has a lot of mindless games that just show off the graphics and sound, it seems like there are a lot of practicle things out for the GS. Personally I would like to see a few mindless games that just show off the graphics and sound. You know fighting aliens, just trying to get the highest score you can. Nothing but pure joystick pleasure. Robet Brown AppleLink: RobPhd BitNet: RXBROWN@UALR