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(was originally on comp.arch... thought I'd cross-post this one to
comp.sys.amiga)

In article <3493@ficc.uu.net> peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:

> In article <800@oracle.oracle.com>, csimmons@oracle.com (Charles Simmons) writes:
> > Basically, here's a machine that costs $800 and which outperforms
> > systems costing $5000.
> 
> Sounds like the Amiga.
> 
> > No one in their right mind is going to drop
> > the price that low on such a beautiful system.  Why take only $400
> > worth of profit when you could have $4000?
> 
> I don't know. Commodore seems to think it's a good idea.
> -- 
> Peter da Silva, Xenix Support, Ferranti International Controls Corporation.
> 
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Nope.  Max Toy at the last JAUG meeting (and I've heard this other
places) said (paraphrased) that they should have priced the machine
much higher.  (1) People think it's so inexpensive that it can't be
true (2) People are paying a lot more for only a little more power,
they would have been willing to pay a little more for the same thing.
(3) (same drift as #1) People don't take it seriously because it's not
expensive enough.

Could you imagine if they added $1000 to the price before releasing
it?  They could have had a great student discount program, and they
would have had more money to spend on marketing and software support.

But I digress... this belongs on comp.sys.marketing :-)

-Tom
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