boily@phy.ulaval.ca (Edouard Boily) (09/11/90)
Dave H. wrote > If we charged $2000 a copy and sold to every 7500 NeXT owners > we'd make $15 million dollars. To make the same as a $200 Amiga > program, we'd have to sell to 75,000 Amiga owners. That's only > around 4% of Amiga owners... > [rest deleted] If 75 000 Amiga owners represents about 4% of the Amiga community, it means that there are approximately 1.8 million Amiga sold, right? How many Macs, PS2, Atari? Edouard
billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) (09/13/90)
In article <30013@nigel.ee.udel.edu> boily@phy.ulaval.ca (Edouard Boily) writes:
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: Dave H. wrote
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:> If we charged $2000 a copy and sold to every 7500 NeXT owners
:> we'd make $15 million dollars. To make the same as a $200 Amiga
:> program, we'd have to sell to 75,000 Amiga owners. That's only
:> around 4% of Amiga owners...
:> [rest deleted]
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: If 75 000 Amiga owners represents about 4% of the Amiga
:community, it means that there are approximately 1.8 million
:Amiga sold, right? How many Macs, PS2, Atari?
Word I heard was that the 1.8 million figure was as of June 1990.
It'll be interesting to see how this Christmas season goes... :-}
: Edouard
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(503) 281-8153 (503) 246-9311 (503) 656-7393 BBS (503) 640-0842nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) (09/13/90)
In article <1990Sep12.180543.19745@agora.uucp>, billsey@agora.uucp (Bill Seymour) writes: > > Word I heard was that the 1.8 million figure was as of June 1990. > It'll be interesting to see how this Christmas season goes... :-} > > -Bill Seymour ...tektronix!reed!percival!agora!billsey In some information I just received from CBM they state that sales hit 1 million in mid-spring of this year. I would guess that sales have reached maybe 1.2 - 1.3 million at the most by now. ---Mike, P.S. How about if we all go out and order 5 or 6 A3000's each, just to boost the sales figure. I'm sure CBM would find a way to increase production. Pseudo-multiprocessing for the masses! -- A man said to the Universe "Sir, I exist!" | Michael Figg DSAC-FSD "However," replied the Universe, | DLA Systems Automation Center "The fact has not created in me a | Columbus, Ohio sense of obligation."- Stephen Crane | mfigg@dsac.dla.mil CIS: 73777,360
es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) (09/14/90)
In article <2506@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes: >In some information I just received from CBM they state that sales hit >1 million in mid-spring of this year. I would guess that sales have reached >maybe 1.2 - 1.3 million at the most by now. > >---Mike, > That info seems a little out of date, it seems that the post office got things to you about a year late. Commodore (via Gail Wellington) claimed that 1,000,000 machines had shipped as of March 1989 at AmiExpo NYC. The official cbm figures are 1.8 million as of June 1990. -- Ethan Ethan Solomita: es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu *Iraq += *Kuwait; NumCountries--; and by popular demand... free(Kuwait);
nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) (09/14/90)
In article <1990Sep13.183632.15950@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > In article <2506@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil> nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes: > > . . . . Commodore (via > Gail Wellington) claimed that 1,000,000 machines had shipped as > of March 1989 at AmiExpo NYC. The official cbm figures are 1.8 > million as of June 1990. > -- Ethan I can't believe your data. Remember the big sales push of Christmas 1989 ( it wasn't that long ago). It was widely stated here and else where that one of the goals was to get sales up to the magic figure of 1 million. I remember somebody saying (possibly Gail Wellington) at AmiExpo-DC, March 1990, that this goal was NOT reached but they were very close. ---Mike, P. S. Either way they need to sell more. -- A man said to the Universe "Sir, I exist!" | Michael Figg DSAC-FSD "However," replied the Universe, | DLA Systems Automation Center "The fact has not created in me a | Columbus, Ohio sense of obligation."- Stephen Crane | mfigg@dsac.dla.mil CIS: 73777,360
d6b@psuecl.bitnet (09/16/90)
g3.dsac.dla.mil> Organization: Engineering Computer Lab, Pennsylvania State University Lines: 10 In article <2514@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil>, nfs1675@dsacg3.dsac.dla.mil ( Michael S Figg) writes: > I remember somebody saying (possibly Gail Wellington) at AmiExpo-DC, March > 1990, that this goal [1 million] was NOT reached but they were very close. Actually Gail said (at AmiExpo-DC) that 1.5 million Amigas had been shipped (I don't know how many were actually sold to users at that time). And (if I may offer some anecdotal evidence) most of the people I know with Amigas bought them within the past few months. -- Dan Babcock
cpca@iceman.jcu.oz (C Adams) (09/25/90)
In article <1990Sep13.183632.15950@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu>, es1@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Ethan Solomita) writes: > That info seems a little out of date, it seems that the > post office got things to you about a year late. Commodore (via > Gail Wellington) claimed that 1,000,000 machines had shipped as > of March 1989 at AmiExpo NYC. The official cbm figures are 1.8 > million as of June 1990. > -- Ethan > I recently read that Commodore Australia has sold 10,000 C64s to China, with another order of 30,000 excepted in a month. They are going to be used in schools. Looks like Commodore Aust. will be making a profit this year.... > > *Iraq += *Kuwait; > NumCountries--; > > and by popular demand... > > free(Kuwait); How about (for the poor Pascal programmers) if(War(America, Iraq)=TRUE) then begin dispose(millions_of_innocent_people); dispose(millions_of_soldiers); dispose(most_of_kuwait) end else begin LookStupid(America,Britain) end; ******************************************************************** Colin Adams Life's funny but I don't laugh ********************************************************************