[News] Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion | ANN.lu |
Posted on 07-Nov-2001 20:45 GMT by Christophe Decanini | 194 comments View flat View list |
Christoph Gutjahr interviewed Hyperion about AmigaOS 4.0.
You can read the interview on amiga-news.de in English or in German.
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Interview with Ben Hermans from Hyperion : Comment 133 of 194 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Brecht on 08-Nov-2001 17:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 132 (Christophe Decanini): >>Fusion. It's as easy running MacOS in Fusion as it is to dual-boot an x86 system.
>No it is not you have to pay for Fusion, Windows come with your PCs.
And you have to pay for Amiga software, Windows software, and Amithlon. It makes no difference. The point is that people will run windows if they need to and 'it'll make them completely convert to windows', according to mr Hermans.
>>And buying software isn't contributing?
>Having an Amiga shop I can say that we have 0,0x % of sales done through UAE users.
So you know the setup of each and every customer? Wow, looks like the market *did* shrink alot.
>>Smells like communism. Why not let people use what they want to use? If there
>Smells like choices in life: for example if you want windows you have to buy X86.
That would be a good argument if Windows wasn't the most widely used OS, and AmigaOS was.
And, you can run Windows on a ppc system too, because the ultra-fast ppc chips swipe the floor with the x86 and can emulate them at blazingly fast speeds.
>>was no UAE/Amithlon, do you really think I would buy an AmigaOne?
>Not you but I know some people puting a lot of $$$ in a PC now to have the ultimate Amiga with Amithlon. They wont buy an AmigaOne or Pegasos soon as they already spent their money ...
Only goes to prove my point that people want an alternative to the overexpensive custom hardware (I never said PPC should be dropped in favor of x86, x86 should co-exist).
>>Who said I'm not ready to *invest* in Amiga? I want to buy software, just not >overpriced & doomed hardware. And it's not much of an investment if I can't >see a future in it.
>Hardware is the major income from Amiga dealers and company.
Without Phase5 Amiga would be nonexistant anymore.
Phase5 itself is nonexistant anymore. How will HW manufacturers be able to survive now that the market will split (AmigaOS/MorphOS), when they hardly have been able to do so before? Sorry for them, but it's reality.
Amiga is no longer about hardware.
>Why do you think MorphOS team and Eyetech plan to adopt a custom PPC hardware ? They could have done the same thing on x86 but they have to cover the OS development on the hardware. If you buy the hardware you contribute to further Amiga development that will increase sales of other software companies. If you just buy the software the hardware platform dies, the dealers too and then software company start to go on Win and Mac.
Too bad not enough people care about the poor Amiga HW and SW companies to feed them :/ Business is business, not charity. |
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