Thread: Orly? N9 not coming to USA
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slaapliedje is offline slaapliedje
2011-08-11 , 23:49
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Originally Posted by don_falcone View Post
Btw, it's already on ./ ... http://mobile.slashdot.org/story/11/...-North-America

@slaapliedje: regarding ST and Amiga, it was the lack of marketing. The Americans rely on marketing. If there's no or no substantial marketing, only geeks go out of their comfort zone in hunt of something they might be interested in, or what is deemed to be needed.
No doubt about that. Atari in their infinite stupidity thought that for whatever reason, that in the '90s they could go on selling their products via word of mouth, like they did back in the '80s with the Atari 2600 and then 8-bits.

IBM and Apple didn't really advertise all that much during the '90s either, but people were familiar with their products because of businesses and schools.

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