plouff@nac.dec.com (Wes Plouff) (10/20/88)
Last night at the Boston Computer Society, Wes Young, a stockbroker who follows Commodore, reported the following news. He talked to Irving Gould and other top Commodore officials during the last couple of weeks. Commodore claims: o 1100 Amiga dealers o 1600 Amiga software titles o about 3/4ths of worldwide sales revenue is from Europe o worldwide Amiga sales 50K units/month, same as Macintosh o total installed base 1 million units by end of 1988 o Amiga has 20+% of TV weather graphics market o U.S. advertising focused on graphics and desktop video markets o general advertising will be limited until a "large enough dealer network is in place" o financial situation continues to improve Overall, this is good news. Now, a little arithmetic says that to reach a million units from a base of 600,000 in summer (June?), Commodore has to have good Christmas sales. But since Max Toy's background is in sales and marketing, they just might do it. -- Wes Plouff, Digital Equipment Corp, Littleton, Mass. plouff%nac.dec@decwrl.dec.com "All the popular bugs in the RAM-Handler were fixed in Version 1.3." Amiga Enhancer Software Manual, page 1-17
page@swan.ulowell.edu (Bob Page) (10/21/88)
plouff@nac.dec.com (Wes Plouff) wrote: >o general advertising will be limited until a "large enough > dealer network is in place" Sounds like a smoke screen to me. You don't pick up dealers unless you can prove to them you're capable of advertising. Overall, it *is* good news though. ..Bob -- Bob Page, U of Lowell CS Dept. page@swan.ulowell.edu ulowell!page Have five nice days.