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- From: jfieber@sophia.smith.edu (John Fieber)
- Subject: Re: Amiga product reviews in BYTE!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.164018.7960@sophia.smith.edu>
- Sender: root@sophia.smith.edu (Operator)
- Organization: Smith College
- References: <1992Nov16.164703.4102@memstvx1.memst.edu>
- Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 16:40:18 GMT
- Lines: 30
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- In article <1992Nov16.164703.4102@memstvx1.memst.edu> langston@memstvx1.memst.edu (Mark C. Langston) writes:
- >In several issues this year, (including the latest one), BYTE magazine has
- >started mentioning the Amiga. Hell, in the newest one, they actually
-
- Back in the mid-80's some mention or feature article about the
- Amiga could be found in nearly every issue. Then they fell
- silent until the A3000 hit the cover(!). Then silence again. I
- hope that C= arranges to have a good feature on the A4000.
-
- > Now, I'm not complaining about the sudden interest in covering the Amiga,
- >but isn't it interesting that they started the coverage about the same time
- >C= threw tens of thousands of dollars at them for two-page spread ads? It
- >smells funky from this end... must a company advertise with them before their
- >platform gets reviewed?
-
- Publishers like Byte are in business to make money, not as public
- service agencies. It smells pretty normal to me.
-
- >I never see Nexts or Suns advertised, but they don't
- >hesitate to mention them in just about every issue.
-
- Sun *does* advertise in Byte. Maybe not as much as Gateway or
- Zeos but they do. Same for Silicon Graphics, HP/Apollo and
- others. Of course there is NeXT, but if there is a rule about
- anything, the NeXT breaks it. Therefore the NeXT doesn't count.
-
- -john
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