bryce@COGSCI.BERKELEY.EDU.UUCP (06/07/87)
[ ] > (b) I see no > "fear of the real potential of the Amiga", only the understanding of just > how difficult it will be for ANY vendor ever to have a significant impact > in the desktop marketplace, expect with a clone. How can ANOTHER clone have a significant impact? Add another one to the hundreds of generic "commodity" clones and get "significant impact"? That is one way to go, but your wins will be those of price, service, reputation and advertising. Sort of like selling orange juice. Apple took on the IBM standard and eventually, after passing over many rough roads, broke the barrier. They used excellence to overcome the IBM momentum. Just look at the PC marketplace to see where the threat lies -> they realize that they need to become Mac-like to prevent their customers from buying Macintoshes. Too bad they don't spend enough on adapting to the user and need to start so far, far behind... (PageMaker on the fastest 80386 Compaq runs slower than the slowest 68000 Mac) Despite the Perter Nortons of this world who say (and I quote:) "Even if it isn't good, it's obvious OS/2 will be the standard" this "IBM Industry Standard" is not the definitive ceiling at the top of all personal computer development. > Hans, you probably should understand the products on which you are > commenting (Edge's products) before commenting. Each person should be free to comment as they please. If they be idiots let time and all net-readers be the judge. If you really can't stand the comments use the "kill" feature. ------------- Ack! (NAK,EOT,SOH) |\ /| . {o O} . bryce@cogsci.berkeley.EDU -or- ucbvax!cogsci!bryce ( " ) The 8th dirty word -> MSDOS :-) U Single tasking? Just say *NO!*