| [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 acg on 17-Jul-2002 15:00 GMT | I am not sure 600 pre-orders can give a good indication of what
amount of units will sell. After all, it represents about $30,000
US for a promise that the products will come out. So far, I haven't
come across an AmigaONE running OS4, or have heard of how
OS4 runs a specific app...so 600 preorders is not toooo bad, and
I think it shows how Amiga fans (-atics?) are very leery about
different promises, no matter who makes them. I mean, how many
disappointments can we take from Commodore, Alex Amor, Mr Pleasance,
Escom, Viscorp, Gateway, etc....BUT, it is a tough business, so
we're still hanging in there...But what are the options?
Slavery to MS, Apple Inc. high prices, and nice software, the Linux
jungle, BeOS conceptual beauty, MorphOS, SGI,...come to mind....
Personally I think a high end machine that has a killer app, that
sells to niche markets should be the first strike, then the mundane
stuff like word processors, etc will follow. How about the Amiga
OS running a 60 small screen video security system on the Perhelia
graphic chip? If you could get security system companies to install
those, do you think the people who use those might want to use
other software set-up for that system?
OK, I've said enough....I just keep hoping someone can get it right. |
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