bowdidge@tournesol.ucsd.edu (Robert Bowdidge) (11/12/89)
Quotes from the editorial in Amiga World, Nov. 89. I found this when shopping for a PC. <article was a complaint about Commodore's marketing; the general gist is that the machine is better than many others on the market, yet Commodore doesn't push it enough.The editor, Doug Barney, complains that Amiga doesn't get credit for applications originally developed under it.> "It makes me sick to see Apple get the credit for inventing multimedia. It is even more sickening to hear some PC review lunkhead froth at the mouth over a black-and-white animation package for the Mac." "We reached the height of ridiculousness when the NEXT (sic) machine from Steve Jobs was introduced. Here was an example of hero worship at its worst. Jobs spends years developing a machine that is a blatant ripoff of the Amiga and then proceeds to get more press coverage than Gorbachev. "The only difference between a NEXT machine and an Amiga is that the Amiga has color, software applications, users, and actually works. The NEXT machine, meanwhile, costs five to ten times as much, has an installed base of about 25, and, let's face it, isn't really finished yet. ... "Commodore also has to convince the major PC software vendors that one million machines equals opportunity. Some of these jokers are writing for true niche machines like Sun workstations (no more than 200,000 installed, I'll bet) and the NEXT machine (you could fit its installed base in a Volkswagon Beetle). Participation by major vendors would mean mainstream software for the Amiga, and a shot at the huge general-purpose business market that continues to suffer under the yoke of IBM-PC tyranny." Hope you enjoyed this excerpt (provided for review purposes only.) -- Robert bowdidge@beowulf.ucsd.edu