| [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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| Comment 1 | Mike Veroukis | | 16-Jul-2002 21:46 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Darrin | | 16-Jul-2002 21:55 GMT |
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| Posted by Joe "Floid" Kanowitz on 16-Jul-2002 22:12 GMT | I was wondering when this would happen, as it was a long time coming. Of course, this is MS, and they're using this as the Perfect Excuse- Apple intentionally(?) made X easy to 'pirate' from their free/nearly-free upgrade CDs, and one wonders how those installs are actually counted- do those store-giveaway CDs get counted as sales? MS propped up Apple during the antitrust phase, but now that it's nearly done with, they're either guaranteed a favorable decision through Federal bias alone, or they're screwed no matter what they do given the judge's demonstrated inability to put up with their perjury and deceit... as little can impact the outcome any longer, they're free to have a field-day in the interim.
Now, the question is- if they can their Mac products, where will the coders go? Despite The Reg's poking at missing localizations in Word, MS's Mac software has often been higher-quality than its Windows counterparts, and you can tell the Mac teams have taken some perverse pleasure in keeping their projects alive. If it all goes to pot overnight, will we see a new applications company founded in Redmond overnight? ...The split the DOJ once wanted, but for the wrong platform? :)
As to how this relates to Amiga... I doubt it does. If anything, our chance of seeing MS apps is skewed bizarrely upwards, given the connections people have... though I still doubt it will happen. The preorders are pretty dismal, but if you assume 25% of the market is willing to risk another BoXeR, 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... and hey, isn't the drool-factor of seeing someone's A1000 what set off the A500 wave? [Now all we need is some drool-factor..] |
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