[Rant] Microsoft to Exit Mac Market If Sales Continue to Lag | ANN.lu |
Posted on 16-Jul-2002 23:29 GMT by Paul Smith | 71 comments View flat View list |
If a serious software publisher plans to leave a platform with a huge userbase (surely we're talking in the hundreds of thousands for MacOSX?), then what chance does OS4 have of making it with promotion figures of about 600? (for forum)
Link to OSNews.com article
If nothing else, this proves what what many have been saying for the past 12 months (and openly ridiculed for). The days of binding your software to custom hardware are over.
Surely it is time that the people in charge of AmigaOS acknowledged that the non-mainsteam hardware route was a mistake. I'd bet that a similar promotion scheme for a version of AmigaOS that ran on the majority of the world's computers would have brought a much larger, and possibly commercially viable userbase. I'd also wager that the numbers sold would have been so, that it would have brought more revenue than the current scheme of selling hardware with it.
This is not intended as flamebait. I hope to provoke a discussion on the future of AmigaOS, rather than a flame-fest.
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Posted by Lando / Trinity on 17-Jul-2002 07:31 GMT | In reply to Comment 3 (Joe "Floid" Kanowitz): > 2,400 sales won't be too bad for the first release of a rather expensive
>niche machine that nobody else on the planet has heard of...
I'm sorry to say this, but it is bad. Really, utterly dismal. You have to remember, the 580 pre-orders doesnt even count the number of AmigaOne sales - many people (maybe even the majority) will be using the coupon solely for OS4, and won't even be buying an A1G3-SE.
>and hey, isn't the drool-factor of seeing someone's A1000 what set off the
>A500 wave?
Yes, but the A1000 was revolutionary. At the time the A1000 appeared, people were using Apple IIe's, C64's, Sinclair Spectrum's, IBM PC's and so on. The A1000 was literally hundreds of times better than what they had sitting on their desk. It was a real dream machine. The A1G3-SE is somewhat slower and less powerful than what most people are now using, and not-at-all revolutionary. |
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