[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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Microsoft to Exit Mac Market If Sales Continue to Lag : Comment 51 of 71 | ANN.lu |
Posted by Hammer (same person as in Amiga.org) on 17-Jul-2002 23:39 GMT | In reply to Comment 31 (Lee O'Malley): @Lee O'Malley,
I wouldn’t equate AmigaOS as BeOS since "Amiga" has a recognizable brand name, existing followers, plenty of legacy application software and the knowledge based to program AmigaOS is relatively plentiful (since it was once the top personal computer platform in the late 80s).
BeOS never had been the world’s top personal computer platform.
Secondly,
Large selling(back in it's peak) Amiga British Mag’s Cover CD has some the best cover CDs available, which may in turn distributed plenty of legacy application software in people’s hands.
BeOS never has this attribute i.e. relatively large proportion of people which has a large collection of legacy applications and knowledge base.
On a personal note;
I have never been excited with BeOS(still sitting in my spare RAID HD gathering dust), unlike soon to be release Amithlon 2.x or AmigaOS4/A1 for that matter. |
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