[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 reflect on 17-Jul-2002 08:05 GMT | You also have to remember that AmigaOS is appealing both to the novice user because it's fairly simplistic, and to the power-user.
You have control with AmigaOS, something I feel is lacking in windows.
Linux/unix has lots of control, yet they lack the gui. Only Mac OS X has a consistent gui for the unix world.
So hopefully, people will see this machine and perhaps like what they see.
And as for the numbers, there were some 300 memberships before they announced that it was for either os4, os4+motherboard or os+A1.
There are a number of people that wants to see it in action first, then go out and buy it. There was a guess earlier that 25% preordered. I think this is too low. Ofcourse, this depends on how long time you count in.. |
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