[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 Hans-Joerg Frieden on 08-Nov-2001 11:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 21 (smithy): > The failure of Be was given as a reason to not have a version of AmigaOS on
> the PC. But Be didn't go bankrupt because of BeOS on the PC (that is the
> context being expressed). In fact, BeOS/x86 increased the sales of BeOS
> massively, generated revenue and gave them a high street presence.
Fact is, that in spite of offering *free* versions of BeOS to PC manufacturers, there was only one series of PC'S where BeOS was actually pre-installed, but disabled by default. You call that a success?
> How many people do you know actually download their Linux copies?
So that gives a business opportunity for Distro sellers. What about software developers? How many successful software developers exist? Even essential projects like DRI are canned because of lack of funding.
> QNX are moving into the desktop market
They've been trying that for years. Yet they didn't succeed. Just have a look at QNX. There is so much essentials missing, it cannot even calibrate the display correctly.
> Which parts have I bent?
" Would half as many people still be using AmigaOS, and active members of the community if it wasn't for UAE/x86 and Amithlon/x86? No. "
Amithlon is a bad example, as you said yourself. About UAE... It's a bad example, too.
>I think the stereotypical emulator user/retro-gamer doesn't fit anymore.
So what? Do they buy Amiga software? I highly doubt that. So they aren't interesting from a business point of view. That is what I mean with "users arent customers". How are you going to make a living from people that mostly dwell on the "good old times"? |
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