| [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 |
| Comment 5 | the man in the shadows | | 17-Jul-2002 02:00 GMT |
| Comment 6 | Frans | | 17-Jul-2002 06:01 GMT |
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| Posted by koan on 17-Jul-2002 06:15 GMT | I think that the article again goes back to the
"can Amiga take on Microsoft/Apple/etc and win" question
which is surely not the point.
Amiga have to take on the 100,000 or so Amiga users worldwide
and make a suitable profit, that's all.
They don't have to "beat" MS or make fancier hardware than Apple.
If they come up with AmigaDE and it works well then they have a good
chance of succeeding where Java has failed (how many years on and still no
"killer" Java apps ?) Then again Java is to all intents (pun intended)
free. Free vs pay, which one will win ? I digress.
I'm sure Amiga Inc has done their maths and worked out whether they believe
they will still have jobs in 3 years time. Until then, OS4 is safely in the hands of Hyperion so unless they are also a bunch of deluded fools then we have nothing to worry about in the short term. |
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