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Can't blame them, even systems from US based companies often sold in UK/Europe better than they sold in the US without any involvement from Microsoft (I'm talki
by krige 5y ago
Can't blame them, even systems from US based companies often sold in UK/Europe better than they sold in the US without any involvement from Microsoft (I'm talking, of course, about the Commodore Amiga).
- pjmlp 5y agoYes, I was the only one on my gang with a PC (a 386SX) everyone else was on Amiga, and I got to learn about Amiga thanks to our weekend meetings, having access to books and magazines and trying to replicate demoscene stuff on the PC. In Portugal, until around 1994 PCs were pretty much something that one would find at the office, not home computers. Magazines like Computer Shopper (UK), Solo Programadores and Spooler were multi-platform.
- vidarh 5y agoWith Commodore it was not lack of money, though, but profound incompetence that saw them burn their US retail network to the ground by antagonizing them. Most notably an infamous incident of announcing a large retail price drop of the C64 without first lowering the price to retailers, and without warning. Commodore only lived as log as it did because it's international subsidiaries had a lot of independence, and some of them were far better at selling than the US team.