daveh@cbmvax.commodore.com (Dave Haynie) (09/07/90)
In article <6880@vax1.acs.udel.EDU> don@vax1.udel.edu (Donald R Lloyd) writes: >You'd think when a machine is this close to 2 million in sales, a few >companies might take notice... (On a similar note, I read in a recent >InfoWorld or PCWeek that Borland is writing a spreadsheet for the NeXT... I >have to wonder about a company which writes software for amachine with an >installed base of ~5000 while completely ignoring 2 million Amiga users...) I guess they figured, heck, if those foolish NeXT users are willing to pay $1500 for an add-on floppy disk drive, just think what they'll be willing to fork over for a decent spreadsheet. 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, but then again, they probably aren't quite so foolish... > Gibberish .sig for sale or lease. > is spoken Contact don@vax1.acs.udel.edu for more information. > here. DISCLAIMER: It's all YOUR fault. -- Dave Haynie Commodore-Amiga (Amiga 3000) "The Crew That Never Rests" {uunet|pyramid|rutgers}!cbmvax!daveh PLINK: hazy BIX: hazy Get that coffee outta my face, put a Margarita in its place!
ifarqhar@mqccsunc.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Ian Farquhar) (09/07/90)
In article <14244@cbmvax.commodore.com> daveh@cbmvax (Dave Haynie) writes: >I guess they figured, heck, if those foolish NeXT users are willing to pay >$1500 for an add-on floppy disk drive, just think what they'll be willing >to fork over for a decent spreadsheet. 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, but then again, they probably aren't quite >so foolish... I am wondering about Borland's original ad. in 1985 Amiga World (you know, dual page, Turbo Pascal Amiga coming soon). In Oz, if they made a statement like that, the consumer protection laws would have been violated when they never brought anything out. Basically, Borland has indulged in false advertising. Anyone care to comment if US consumer protection laws could be brought against them? I'd just love to know the *true* story about why it was never produced. -- Ian Farquhar Phone : 61 2 805-7420 Office of Computing Services Fax : 61 2 805-7433 Macquarie University NSW 2109 Also : 61 2 805-7205 Australia EMail : ifarqhar@mqccsuna.mqcc.mq.oz.au