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Martin Skowronski (martman@bridge.net) wrote:
: It has been suggested that PIOS needs to sell MAC clones in order
: to pay bills and continue research on Amiga development. This has
: to be one of the most illogical business strategies since C= attempted
: to further Amiga development with the sale of PC Clones!

I would assume the decision was based on something like "Who'd going to buy
the beer?  Can't, out of cash.  Drag.  Well, ok, we need money, how can we
get some?  Could sell PCs.  Nah, everybody sells PCs and nobody makes much
from them.  Hey, Macs are being cloned now! Cool, that is where the amiga
should go, let's check it out.  Hey, if we sell some of these now we can make
some beer money until VIScorp gets off it's ass.  Let's do it.  What kind of
beer you want?  Anything over 7% alcohol. Cool, let'd get pie-eyed." :)

: For every single MAC clone that PIOS sells, they are literaly removing
: one potential buyer from the customer base for TRUE "next generation" Amigas.

If the only market VIScorp will ever have is existing amiga owners they will
drop quicker than ESCOM did.

: It is sheer folly to market a product that is/will be in direct competition
: with a product that you "really" want to market. Why doesn't PIOS re-sell
: other products to "pay the bills"?  There is enough new tecnology being developed
: and marketed every day that PIOS could choose to promote.

Why should their bank accounts be driven by the whining of the owners of 5 
year+ old computers?  They don't own the amiga rights after all, even if you
accept the supposition that whoever does should take care of people who have
never given them a dime in purchasing what they sell.

: Technology that would not be in conflict with future Amiga sales.
: Technology like Digital Video, Digital Storage, and Digital Communication.
: They could re-sell laptops, palmtops, ISDN modems or anything that
: wouldn't possibly interfere with the sale of future Amiga home computers.

Possibly because they don't have income coming in from their various oil
fields in Saudi Arabia and can't take on more than a few projects at a time.

: From what I can tell, either PIOS is very naive about marketing, or they are
: simply employing the same strategy that BE is using of engratiating themselves
: with existing Amiga end-users in order to get their business.

The baseline of all this is that you think the only people who will buy new 
amiga computers will be existing owners and that the market consists only of 
them.  I think that if this is true then the amiga is dead already.

: In any case I'm not buying it!

Noone is forcing you to. 

Regards,

BM