[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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Posted by Christophe Decanini on 08-Nov-2001 18:44 GMT | In reply to Comment 133 (Brecht): >>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.
Today you could say that anyone can run MACOS on their PPC Amiga. But it is not as easy as running Windows on a PC:
It is expensive
It lacks a lot of feature comparing to a real mac.
It does not run OSX
>>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.
Customers like to speak about their config. You immediately know what kind of Amiga they have depending on their orders.
>>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.
Is this fascism ? Only one race of OS ?
>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.
This is not the point. The point is that you bought a PC and you think the PC should do everything. This is not a lack of liberty if you can not run AmigaOS 4.0 on a PC. It makes sense to run AmigaOS on an Amiga.
>>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).
Only prove my point that too be successfull you need a good hardware base. The hardware on Amiga is now too much outdated. This could change with an affordable AmigaOne / Pegasos
>>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.
Phase 5 legacy went to DCE and Phase 5 engineers went into Bplan. They are two companies that are big for the Amiga future.
>>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.
This is about business not charity. I prefer to pay for Amiga development than to pay for windows drivers and new x86 dev. I don't pay just for the sake of paying: I'am using the products and I enjoy it. |
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