[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 Brad Ray on 20-Jul-2002 16:13 GMT | It really doesnt matter at this point and time.
No one is gonna take Amiga serious at first anyhow.
Amiga is gonna have to prove itself in a flooded software, and hardware market.
and the only way to do this, is to have something different (in a good way) and something solid.
And besides, you can ask the same question about Microsoft.
What are they gonna do about all the different countries who are not gonna support windows anymore? (and there are quite a few now)
Amiga is not gonna make their money in the states, anyhow.
Most of it will be made across seas.
Amiga inc. has a very nice chance of bringing Amiga back to the world, if they take their time and do it right. (that includes good advertisement)
The only thing that is holding Amiga back, is the shape of the world wide economy.
The future of the economy is not looking very good at all.
And one other plus for the Amiga is linux users worldwide...
I believe that they will be very interested in the new Amiga One motherboard. |
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