TK0GRM1@NIU.BITNET (Gordon Meyer) (07/12/89)
In a recent digest Dan Moore wrote: %lots of stuff deleted% > There are over 15,000,000 PClones in the US. Around 4,000,000 > Macs and over 1,000,000 Amigas. %more stuff deleted% Are you sure that there are one million Amigas in the *U.S.* ? Commodore, like Atari, won't fess up to a number sold, as least as far as I've heard. Last time I saw the magic 1 mil associated with Commodore it was for worldwide sales. I'm not trying to start a numbers war here, and I'm certainly not going to pretend that there have been more ST's then Amiga's sold in this country, but I don't think the numbers as posted were accurate. Okay..okay..it's all a moot point. The real concern is the lack of software for BOTH machines. Most industry writers will lump together when and say niether has managed to get a real market share. -=->G<-=-
t19@nikhefh.hep.nl (Geert J v Oldenborgh) (07/12/89)
According to the director of Atari Benelux, quoted in the Dutch STart magazine, the total number of STs sold worldwide is more then 1.5 million. Over 70% of this is in Europe. Geert Jan van Oldenborgh
cmcmanis%pepper@Sun.COM (Chuck McManis) (07/13/89)
Right, at the Developers Conference in San Francisco Commodore announced
that they had passed the million machine mark by March of 1989 (1,041,000).
They also noted that 70% of their new sales were in Europe. Given the
initial sales of 1000's here in the US and the current split the best
guess anyone can come up with is between 300 and 500 thousand in the US.
(Early Amiga sales were much more US slanted.) They claimed the hoopla
they had been planning was delayed while the fired the president of the
US sales office. (Actually they said "things were in transition" but
that is what they meant.) Anyway, if anyone from Atari want to jump up
with an installed base number please feel free...
--Chuck McManis
uucp: {anywhere}!sun!cmcmanis BIX: cmcmanis ARPAnet: cmcmanis@sun.com
These opinions are my own and no one elses, but you knew that didn't you.
"A most excellent barbarian ... Genghis Kahn!"