[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 $50 coupon (and free t-shirt) for an AmigaOne system; you don't care? Don't do anything at all, don't come complaining later when you'll find out that in the real world companies need to show their investors that there is a user base willing to purchase their product. And if you think that even without Amiga Inc. the community is going to survive think again: the numbers are getting smaller by the day, just two or three years ago people were saying there were still 300.000 active users, today we don't even know if there are 50,000 or 10,000 or even less. Without everyone's support the community <b>WILL</b> die. Time to set aside our differences and do one last effort to stay alive. Either you're in or you're out.
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Posted by ANMY on 25-Jun-2002 18:37 GMT | In reply to Comment 12 (Troels Ersking): >and I am not going to pay Amiga the 50$ for a voucher
Voucher ? What Voucher, I thought I was just getting a $50 T-shirt....
Seriously, I understand why they are doing this. And I think it will give them a good clue about how many "serious" buyers there are out there.
I also understand that some people are sceptical about prepaying anything, after loosing money on similar situations before.
But in this care, the amount is very small. Just enaugh to show Amiga that you
really intend to buy the One.
I think the worst case is if only about 250 persons sign up and Amiga decides to cancel due to lack of potensial buyers.
But hey, I will still have my T-shirt :)
A rather exclusive "I got screwed by Amiga T-shirt"
Well, now they at least got my money, I signed up as number 176. |
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