| [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
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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 sutro on 17-Jul-2002 11:42 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (the man in the shadows):
>>>Comment 5 of 24
> I'm a Java developer and one of my least favorite things about Java is having to use "java Foo.jar" all the time (kind of like "rx bar.rexx").
I don't see your point.
>>>Comment 7 of 24
>If they come up with AmigaDE and it works well then they have a good
chance of succeeding where Java has failed (how many years on and still no
"killer" Java apps ?)
Java has failed ? Now, that's news to me....
Don't make me laugh.
As for Office develpment on MacOS, I haven't heard anything but the story makes sense. M$ is a rival to Apple and Apple lately has gone offensive trying to lure customers from M$. I don't see Apple loosing much in the long term though. If you count users who need a Word Processor in their computer you will be suprised to find out that the number has declined over the years so much that it is no longer the first option. Try Internet, mp3 and Games instead.
If I were Beeell Gate$ I would worry about up-and-coming OpenOffice/StarOffice. They are going to loose greatly in many markets such as Education.
Speaking for myself, as a multi-platform user I am happy I don't have to use M$ Office. Once OpenOffice runs smoothly on my Mac it's game over for Office. |
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