[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 View flat View list |
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 gary_c on 17-Jul-2002 23:09 GMT | In reply to Comment 49 (Ruben Monteiro): No, I didn't mean to say that AmigaDE was "meant" to kill AmigaOS. It's just that the end result will be a much weaker AmigaOS the more AmigaDE is promoted. There will be much less reason for a user to buy into the Amiga hardware/OS platform if the same apps are available via AmigaDE on Windows or Linux or other platforms. Yes, it'll be good for developers if they can code for AmigaDE and gain access to the Windows market, but this is something different. What Amiga, Inc. is doing in this case is providing a exit route for Amiga developers to the Windows market. The positives that AmigaDE provides for the proprietary Amiga platform are far outweighed by the negatives, IMHO. Maybe there's something brewing for AmigaOS5 and beyond that?will tip this balance back toward the positive, but I'm not aware of anything like that.
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