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Offline ceciliaTopic starter

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How Amiga Should have been marketed
« on: May 10, 2010, 09:05:31 PM »
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2010, 12:31:58 AM »
How would 'snake oil' psychobabble have helped? LOL
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #2 on: May 11, 2010, 01:33:26 PM »
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How would 'snake oil' psychobabble have helped? LOL


 various companies over the years have also not appreciated his points and missed their opportunity to push the Amiga the way it deserved.

over the years I have seen people debating here about Amiga being HW or Software and THEY have just Missed the point completely.

AT least I understood it enough to end up with a career
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #3 on: May 11, 2010, 02:34:31 PM »
Cecilia, You're breaking my heart. You've missed an important point:
Why: Only Amiga Makes it Possible.

They did.!

This is not new. Ernie Shackleton 1915. Inspired leadership using the number one "WHY".

BTW:Apple's profit is not just a result of a good proposition or good product or marketing its also result of product lock-in. They've learnt from the past.
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #4 on: May 11, 2010, 04:10:32 PM »
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BTW:Apple's profit is not just a result of a good proposition or good product or marketing its also result of product lock-in. They've learnt from the past.

Yes!  Did you see Jobs' half an hour infomercial on the Ipad?  Apple's recent success can partly be chalked up to mad snake oil salesmen...:)
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #5 on: May 11, 2010, 04:15:47 PM »
1985 Commercial in an alternate world where Amiga took over:

"The new alliance between Commodore, Atari, and Apple, has now come to fruition with the release of the Amiga. IBM and all clone companies are scrambling to obtain manufacturing licences as Amiga takes over the world."

By 2010 it takes over the worlds.

yes worlds we have colonies on Mars, two of Jupiters moons, and an Amiga powered colony on the sun.  
Amiga needs no advertising anymore with "miggy" nanites impanted in our brains, providing any and all connectivity and information a person wants.


...but then in 2012 in the alternate universe, the miggy nanites take over and our brains are bypassed and put into a coma like state as the 8.3 billion humans become Agnes, Gary, Denise, Paula, Andrea, and Alice clones trying desparately to shed our meat shells.
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2010, 04:26:05 PM »
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Yes!  Did you see Jobs' half an hour infomercial on the Ipad?  Apple's recent success can partly be chalked up to mad snake oil salesmen...:)


Forget all about apple crap here please, its an amiga forum.
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #7 on: May 11, 2010, 04:28:06 PM »
@thread

Amiga have their own marketing by the users thanks to the old good days, dont need marketing anymore.
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #8 on: May 11, 2010, 05:24:06 PM »
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Forget all about apple crap here please, its an amiga forum.


ZOMG! Someone mentioned a successful computer company as it applied to the thread!!!!1111eleventyone

Honestly, if some folks here are going to continue having an allergic reaction to anyone daring to mention Apple, they are really only going to be setting themselves up as troll-bait and deserve everything they get.
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #9 on: May 11, 2010, 06:22:33 PM »
@cecilia

Really good video. Thanks! :)
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #10 on: May 11, 2010, 06:52:39 PM »
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@thread

Amiga have their own marketing by the users thanks to the old good days, dont need marketing anymore.


Much good it did us.
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #11 on: May 11, 2010, 10:59:35 PM »
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Yes!  Did you see Jobs' half an hour infomercial on the Ipad?  Apple's recent success can partly be chalked up to mad snake oil salesmen...:)


Strictly speaking, a snake oil salesman sells something that he knows doesn't work to the gullible. I'm not a fan of Apple, but the products that they put on the market work well.

That was an interesting video.

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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #12 on: May 12, 2010, 03:09:27 AM »
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ZOMG! Someone mentioned a successful computer company as it applied to the thread!!!!1111eleventyone

Honestly, if some folks here are going to continue having an allergic reaction to anyone daring to mention Apple, they are really only going to be setting themselves up as troll-bait and deserve everything they get.
on that topic THE most successful amiga-related company is NewTek

and they are still around


btw, i was not suggesting Amiga needs this marketing now. that's over with.

I was refering to what SHOULD have been done. and wasn't
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #13 on: May 12, 2010, 03:12:31 AM »
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@cecilia

Really good video. Thanks! :)
http://www.ted.com/  has great stuff...
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Re: How Amiga Should have been marketed
« Reply #14 on: May 12, 2010, 03:55:11 AM »
You have to have a vision to sell a vision.  Once the Amiga was released there was no guiding vision, just sell the thing.
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