| [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 Don Cox on 17-Jul-2002 12:08 GMT | In reply to Comment 28 (Fabian Jimenez):
"As for what this means to Amiga, not much IMHO. The Amiga One wont attract developers the size of
Microsoft (allbeit M$ seems interested in Amiga DE). What the Amiga One needs to do is draw back the
"bedroom programmer" as well as some of the smaller companies the Amiga used to have. Sadly this
potential split between AOS 4 and MOS will mean that neither will sell more than 2000 units at the most,
which is pathetic (who is right or wrong doesn't concern me at this
point)."
However, that split shouldn't concern the application programmer too
much. For instance, if you use MUI and compile for 68k and PPC, the
program should run on all the machines your customers are using. The
PPC version could be skipped if the program doesn't need the ultimate
in speed.
It's still less trouble than checking that a program works on every
possible version of Windows or every Linux setup. |
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