amigadave wrote:
How many $20 to $50 games could the average 14 year old afford per month or year from 1985 to 1995?
This is a good point.
People talk about Amiga piracy a lot, but on the PC it was the exact same things. All my friends had pirated Windows, pirated Photoshop, etc etc.
But lets take a look at Photoshop....
Can your average 14 year old afford Photoshop? No, but does it really matter to Adobe if they pirate it? I mean most 14 years olds back then weren't actually using Photoshop in a business or to make money. Or, that is to say if it wasn't available through piracy then those 14 year olds wouldn't have gone out and bought it so, there really is no lost sales.
But, come 10 years later. Those 14 year olds are now out of College. Guess what program they are 100% efficient at?? Photoshop!! So, now they start their own business or work for a company and guess what product they are going to buy or get their company to use? Photoshop.
So to me, the kids using Photoshop is the best free advertisement Adobe could get.
Piracy didn't kill off MS because they were smarter than Commodore management. Kids in my school had just as much pirated "PC". More since people actually new what a PC was thanks to what I call Commodore's no advertising policy.
It's funny that the only place I ever say Amiga ads was IN Amiga magazines! Uh, I think the people reading those mags already new what an Amiga was.. oh Commodore lol!! :-)
