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[News] Amiga2k show analysisANN.lu
Posted on 03-Apr-2000 19:33 GMT by Christian Kemp19 comments
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Corinna Cohn went to the Amiga2k and posted an extensive analysis on Moo Bunny. She describes the show itself, provides a rundown of the products on display, talks about Bill's speech and what she later talked with Bill and Fleecy. Read part 1, part 2 and part 3
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Comment 1Mike Bouma02-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
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Amiga2k show analysis : Comment 4 of 19ANN.lu
Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 02-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
Heh. I happen to share some of Fleecy's sense of humor, so I can't comment on that, but with regards to professionalism, I think the /biggest/ smear on Amiga right now is the #($*#$# website!
Look at ANN here, look at kilobit.org (run by a friend of mine, but it's basically a one-man operation), then look at the official international presence for Amiga on the 'net. Not too pretty, is it? We're supposed to be seeing an update "any day now," which hopefully means that they're finding a new designer, but you have to admit that any IPO-seeking startup in today's business world would've made damn sure to have the new site launch on the day of a major announcement, not "whenever."
Aside from that, I'm pretty satisfied with the announcement, although I'd like to be able to see a picture of the developer's box, even if it's not much different from the clone I'm typing on. My guess as to why they're running hosted is probably that, until now, very little development work for Elate has been done under Elate itself. When someone sits down to write a minibrowser for a cellphone, they don't punch it in on the phone's handset, they use some sort of desktop box with some sort of desktop OS. Someone's probably cooking up an AMIEDevelop package or such for Elate, and that will probably be available before the first consumer boxes come out, but for now we're in a situation similar to the Macintosh and Lisa. Want to code for a Mac? Buy a Lisa. The upside is that the devbox isn't trying to be anything but a devbox, and that a local (runs within AMIE/Elate) development environment will no doubt be available by the time the first "consumer" product is shipped.
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Comment 5Marco Ridoni02-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
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Comment 14Joe "Floid" Kanowitz03-Apr-2000 22:00 GMT
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