| [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 |
| Comment 3 | Joe "Floid" Kanowitz | | 16-Jul-2002 22:12 GMT |
| Comment 4 | gary_c | | 16-Jul-2002 23:35 GMT |
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| Microsoft to Exit Mac Market If Sales Continue to Lag : Comment 5 of 71 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by the man in the shadows on 17-Jul-2002 02:00 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (gary_c):
> But anyway, this is all thinking about AmigaDE apps on Windows. How does AmigaOS
> benefit from AmigaDE? In my opinion, the more developers produce apps to run on
> AmigaDE rather than native on AmigaOS, the less incentive people have to buy into
> the Amiga platform. After all, the Amiga apps they want are already available on
> Windows, etc. via AmigaAnywhere. Amiga, Inc. is actually killing AmigaOS by pushing
> developers to produce for the multi-platform AmigaAnywhere instead.
Great point there gary_c, but you might have missed one thing... the sandbox. 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"). AmigaDE is very similar to Java but there is one thing AmigaOS will offer that the AmigaAnywhere can not... no sandbox. You won't have to worry about launching AmigaAnywhere just to launch a program written for the AmigaDE when you are using AmigaOS. This is why I think AmigaDE applications have a good chance to survive once a "native layer" AmigaOS hits the shelf (the often speculated AmigaOS5). |
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