[News] The "I Am Amiga" promotion has ended! | ANN.lu |
Posted on 26-Jul-2002 10:41 GMT by et | 134 comments View flat View list |
And the total is.. 940. Not bad.
"Countdown to the draw: The promotion has ended. Coupon count may still rise as third party dealers submit their sales. Winners will be announced soon."
.. So, we could well make the 1000 mark, well done people, I hope you all order AmigaOnes as soon as they are available :)
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Posted by catohagen on 26-Jul-2002 11:13 GMT | In reply to Comment 4 (smithy): >With a userbase of 940, I can just imagine that the likes of Adobe, Symantec, and Corel are climbing over each to develop for the Amiga.
Ofcource the big companies can't invest in amiga software,yet....amigans
these days have their machines at home, for personal use, the companies
you mentions creates software for professional buisnesses, DTP and stuff
where mac seems to dominate the marked with more powerful hardware.
The price for one of the products from the companies you mention
probably are lots more that all/most apps/utils you can buy on amiga
(thinking of those still being developed, Frogger,IOSpirit stuff,Voyager,Amirc,Ibrowse ++++ the
usual applications)
But it might attract more developers, afterall..amiga is kinda a hobbyist
computer...a computer/OS for the *creative* minds..
So after some time we will have more ports of free/gpl software....and more
to play with...that equals more 'reasons' to jump onto the platform(?)...
And we'll have the 'better' people migrating to our OS, creative people
will seek their equals or something like that :) equal mind, equal spirit
Well, it can be like this...atleast in a year or two....
Maybe if our OS became more/closer to mainstream once, then some companies
would consider developing for our platform, but not with current amiga users..
If there are 10.000 amiga active users, how many would need an office suite ?
and how many would buy it....for what...2-300 USD ?
If there are 10.000 amiga active users, how many would need a graphics package from Adobe/Corel ?
Corel Draw 10 price ? over 500 USD ? (guessing)
What we must have soon is :
*A decent uptodate browser
Ibrowse last hope ? I still can't pay my bills with online banking using amiga browsers, i need a pc
*A (skinnable?) movie/mpeg/divx/whatever player (using your system as a home entertainment center)
Frogger seems to go this route now..
*Audio player, continuation of AmigaAmp/Amplifier is a must! And a AVS system wouldnt hurt
either.....I would guess a G3@600mhz is enough to perform most equalizer triggered
effects.....Connect your machine to the stereo&tv at night and play your OGG/MP3 collection
with some nice visual effects
Ofcource all this you can do today with the most used OS'es today, except our :/ |
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