So...what IS your point?
And still, who the F*CK is Jimmy?
You don't know peanuts about the period of time around when the Amiga was created do you? Let me create a mini-timeline with the economic factors and Amiga history combined.
1976 Milton Friedman wins the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences
1977 Carteromics begins
1978 Milton Friedman gave his "What is America speech?"
1979 2nd oil crisis
1980 U.S. stagflation reached double digits, A deep but short 6 month U.S. recession was entered
1981 Reaganomics begins
1982 U.S. Unemployment peaked at 10.8%, Larry Kaplan and Jay Miner form the Hi-Toro company and found Amiga Corporation to create a video game machine
1983 Jay Miner finishes a prototype of "Lorraine", the video game market crashes
1984 Jack Traimel leaves C= and buys Atari from Time Warner, Atari contracts with Amiga to develop gfx chips and lends Amiga $500,000, C= buys Amiga and pays off Atari
1985 The C= Amiga 1000 was released
Does anyone see any errors? Iggy, have you figured out who Jimmy is yet?
1% of the worlds population own 90% of its wealth. This should not be.
Yes, I agree but I also agree with Milton Friedman on the topic of income inequality and how governments make it worse. See his "What is America?" QnA on YouTube which deals with this important topic among many others where governments provide the wrong economics to help but end up doing more harm. The 2008-2009 recession and economic collapse was most caused by government intervention in the housing markets to help minorities and the poor buy houses. Everyone should have the right to not want, not be hungry, not be homeless, not be without a job, not be without health care, etc., right?
What's more interesting, is why on earth did Commodore pay so much money to acquire Amiga? This doesn't make any sense to me, it sounds like the only competition was Atari who had offered $5 to buy them. Commodore spent so much money to acquire Amiga that they almost bankrupted themselves and couldn't afford to market the A1000 properly.
Competition. C= wasn't aware of other bids for the Amiga although they probably had a pretty good idea of the current Amiga financial situation. The Amiga technology was jaw dropping back then and they wanted it. Maybe Gould didn't want Tramiel to have it also.
They should have offered $10 instead then paid Atari off and kept all of the Amiga guys on the payroll....job done!
C= was better at cost reducing products than developing them. The Amiga would have been different if most of the original Amiga Team was able to continue development and Jay Miner had more say in development. It would have cost more though so the market penetration may not have been as good. Maybe memory prices going down would have helped enough regardless. It's difficult to say although Jay Miner was right about memory prices, adding computer expansion and creating a versatile computer and not just a game machine
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