[Rant] TO THOSE WHO DON'T GET IT | ANN.lu |
Posted on 24-Jun-2002 15:16 GMT by Luca Diana | 66 comments View flat View list |
It's time to put aside pityful and damaging behavior. The very existance of the community is at stake.
Amiga needs to show now how many active users are out there, and by active I mean people who are willing to invest money in hardware and software. You want to show you're one of them? Get the $50 coupon (and free t-shirt) for an AmigaOne system; you don't care? Don't do anything at all, don't come complaining later when you'll find out that in the real world companies need to show their investors that there is a user base willing to purchase their product. And if you think that even without Amiga Inc. the community is going to survive think again: the numbers are getting smaller by the day, just two or three years ago people were saying there were still 300.000 active users, today we don't even know if there are 50,000 or 10,000 or even less. Without everyone's support the community <b>WILL</b> die. Time to set aside our differences and do one last effort to stay alive. Either you're in or you're out.
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Posted by EmGee on 25-Jun-2002 11:46 GMT | Funny actually (or should I say sad ?), people are fighting about a machine which isn't even in it's final consumer form, and they're already judging it just based on it's specs or prototype models.
Why o why can't ANYONE wait for the release of the OFFICIAL consumer release of the A1/OS4 combo ? If you think you like it, buy it. If you think you don't like it than don't buy it but stop acting like idiots, it starts looking like some african tribe war in the 1800's !!
The Amiga name will always bring a warm feeling to me, although I don't own one atm. It sure brings back some nice memories. And in those days the so called "war' was between platforms (Amiga vs Atari ST, Amiga vs PC etc.) It made the coders/developers very creative for showing of their abilities at the other platform (e.g compare A500 or ST demos/games from 1987 with those of 1993)
Really sad this "war" is now on ONE very SMALL market (10k user max ?).
To those ever negatively criticizing ppl: Stop whining and wait before you judge (you too would rather have the 2002 model of a car than a 1984 model don't you ?)
To those other ppl: Wait and your dreams come true (remembers me of Fairlight intro's :)
Regards EmGee |
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