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No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 20-Apr-2015 4:34:48
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| Dear Amiga fan community,
I have searched up and down on google, but besides a dealer in Tokyo who closed his business in 1997, it seems like there is no Amiga Shop in Asia.
I think a big handicap for Amiga OS 4.1 , Morph OS and AROS is that non of them has a localization for Chinese, Japanese and other main Asian languages.
Petro told me that plenty of Amiga 1200s were sold in India and some classic Amigas are still storaged in the Philippines.
So, what does it take to open one? How much capital should be invested?
I have a broad network of IT guys in Asia (mostly India) who might be convinced that Trevor's Amistore might be a good idea for a niche sales channel, but what can I tell them about market size, if Hyperion, Morph OS etc. is not giving me any sales numbers?
I think, the Asian market is a very young and dynamic one. A generation of IT students is growing up who are looking for an alternate from Windows, MAC OSx and Chrome OS. If the cards will be played right, there might be a chance to win a bit of the market back. _________________ -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 20-Apr-2015 9:28:28
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| @TWamiga
I buy thru internet and E-Bay in Asia so there should be no problem for asians to buy in Europe and USA.
If there is no dealer in Asia you can consider to create you a e-shop as your second business. Last edited by Raffaele on 20-Apr-2015 at 09:29 AM.
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 20-Apr-2015 11:40:31
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| Good idea as many people. Nowdays still a "corner shop" is not really viable. Everetyhing nearly bought from the net or planned over there. Not the heavy stuff but even tyres were a better buy. As an oldschool type would like a lot of a shop, it's usually just related in a big hypermarket in todays times over here.
e-shop , You know Petro;)
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 20-Apr-2015 19:40:14
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Hello fellow
Well,in my point of view I think that what you exposed here about the Amiga channels to sell certain amounts of units in Asia is right.If Philippines still stock ones of those blurry viewings classic systems I hope there could be a market for your country and Asian people.
And I will tell you more: If Asians specially Japanese and Chinese are yellow skinned the Amiga 500 one I own too is yellow and maybe the others on Philippines could be yellow too as their skin so there is a coincidence here I knew.
Hope people starts to bore about Windows and MacOS and buy our special Amiga machines.
I think there is future yet if we know how to move our cards.There's still business.
We need to move forward and need too to emphasize in packaging,presentation and maybe too some publicity on some Amiga or other web-sites like Ars-Technica or Even attack some PC-sites with good red-white Amiga logo publicity.
Clearly to Asia with love. Last edited by newlight on 20-Apr-2015 at 07:45 PM. Last edited by newlight on 20-Apr-2015 at 07:41 PM.
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 21-Apr-2015 0:56:54
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resle
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 21-Apr-2015 1:02:24
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I don't think he knows what he's trying to say. Provided he's trying to say anything at all. |
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 30-Jul-2015 23:31:52
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I'm just waiting for a particular 4.1FE update to connect UTF8 input for Hiragana and Katakana to have Japanese initial support working using Perception-IME.
I'm currently indexing at least 13000 Kanji and merging them into ~5500 readings based on Hiragana.
Once I get working Japanese Input, Korean and Chinese follow reasonably quickly.
Should I look at Tagalog for filipino support as well? Last edited by Belxjander on 30-Jul-2015 at 11:32 PM.
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 31-Jul-2015 16:54:21
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What about Cebuano?
More seriously, I don't think thre was ever any Commodore or Amiga following in the Philippines and pretty much everyone there is fluent in English anyway. |
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 1-Aug-2015 2:26:00
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I think that amiga "shops" are only in the UK and europe...
None here in the US any more.
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 1-Aug-2015 6:18:19
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Yeah, the last Amiga store I was ever physically in, in the US, was in Seattle, down by Pike's Place, in 1994. I bought Gunship 2000 there :] Last edited by TheDungeonDelver on 01-Aug-2015 at 06:18 AM.
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Re: No Amiga shops in Asia? Posted on 1-Aug-2015 18:43:22
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I guess I was lucky. At the time, I lived in Santa Monica and worked in Torrance. So I could shop at either Creative Computer store.
I miss having a real local store.
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