Cartridge port for Amiga in 1985?

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Why not?  Was the memory capacity of cartridges too low, or were they simply becoming too expensive to manufacture?

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I supposed Commodore also may have noted the blazing fast Amiga floppy load time relative to the 1541 drives for the C64.  I vaguely recall an article entitled something like, "100 activities to pass the time while your C64 software loads."

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They could have quashed the low-end game machine stigma by only having available (at the time of the A1000 release) "instant-load" applicaton software in cartridge format, such as a word processor, spreadsheet, etc. -- leaving the game software entirely to 3rd-party companies.  Even if cartridges were expensive to produce, application software was still very expensive in the 80s and they could have easily sold it for over $100 per cartridge.