> I hate to sound negative, but the reality is, we Amiga users
> usually exagerate somewhat when it comes to trying to determine
> how many people use Amigas. I just hope that the number is
> above a few thousand... and I mean single digit numbers.
>
> I know from my knowledge here in BC, Canada, and thinking of
> the third largest city in Canada... being Vancouver... there
> is only really one or two people doing any repairs to the Amiga that
> I know of, and they have "other jobs" to pay the bills...
>
> Meaning, not very many in this city of over a million!
I don't think anything in Canada or the US can ever be
indicative of the userbase worldwide: they are traditionally
the small markets (besides high-end bluechip video production)
and you don't get many home users.
Look to the UK and German userbases, and you'll see that there
is a huge difference: Amiga Format sells 12,000+ issues alone,
Amigactive sells it's own fair share of mags. There are a *lot*
of people who buy either/or rather than both magazines which
means that in magazine-buying alone we total in the 10,000s.
You can double that in people who can't get either magazine
due to geographical difficulties, or cost. Don't forget that
the final sales total for the CyberStormPPC and BlizzardPPC
cards were knocking on the door of 10,000 sales too (reputable
sources say 9,800-ish)
Conservative estimates of the online/offline Amiga Community
say about 35,000. Oh, 35,005 if you count the users in British
Columbia ;)
So don't cite your tiny backwards little "town in the middle
of nowhere" type Amiga market as a worldwide counter for users,
because it just doesn't work like that.
--
Matt Sealey [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Distributed Systems Support
Computer Centre
University of Leicester
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