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Offline IonDeluxe

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Re: What killed off the Amiga?
« on: October 17, 2003, 05:30:23 PM »
In my view, it seemed that commodore was hell bent on self destructing.

They did not market or adrvetise the Amiga, that was left to retailers.
They sunk huge amounts of money into thier PC clone section effectively competing with themselves and thowing that cash in a deep hole as that section was losing money hand over fist
they badly mismanaged thier finances.

I can only wonder what would have hapened if they had not put all that cash into x86 systems, and divided into marketing, development, and getting some decent financial advisors.

I shudder to think what the a600/a1200/a4000 would have been like with only a 1/3 of that cash squandered on pc clones was put into amiga development

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Re: What killed off the Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2003, 06:32:00 AM »
Thats is completely. C= went bust, this caused the demise of Amiga.They lost huge amount of money in thier PC sector, this caused C= to go bust. They lost huge amounts of money in the PC sector because of poor management.They should never, in my opinion, even entered the PC market and focussed on Amiga's completely.

The CD32 was extremely popular, that fact of the matter is they were already too far gone fo the CD32 to pull them out of the hole. It would have if they could have produced enough.

All the Amiga sectors were running at a good to great profit...until of course Commodore went under.

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