3 ms·
Bad marketing is a big part of it. Amiga fans will also cite poor management choices in general, though I don't know anything about that. By the time they were
by ubermonkey 9y ago
Bad marketing is a big part of it. Amiga fans will also cite poor management choices in general, though I don't know anything about that.
By the time they were introduced, though, the PC and Mac were already in the market.
The PC was being adopted into offices by then, so it's also possible that the ironclad rep (at the time!) of IBM meant that the PC was already locked into a path to dominance, but that leaves open the question of why the Amiga didn't manage to survive in homes or education.
- amiga-workbench 9y ago>but that leaves open the question of why the Amiga didn't manage to survive in homes or education. Compatibility mainly, being able to take your work home and continue doing it. There were a few software 8086 emulators for the Amiga that could run DOS and a few productivity applications, and there was a sidecar for the A1000 which had a full blown PC & 5.25" floppy drive in it for compatibility.
- _mrmnmly 9y agothank You all for Your responses - it turned out an interesting question for me which I plan to dive deeper into during following weekend :)