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Posted on 17-Sep-2002 07:46 GMT by Mike Bouma90 comments
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In a new Amiga editorial for Suite101, John Chandler focusses on the Amiga solutions already available and what we can soon expect from Amiga Inc. Among this are AmigaDE enabled Zaurus PDAs and smartphones, AA availability in mainstream European shops and AmigaOS 4.0 scheduled for a pre-Christmas launch.
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Posted by DOJ on 17-Sep-2002 09:45 GMT
Wow, that was an uninteresting piece of marketing. Are you sure that "Mike Bouma" and "John Chandler" aren't the same person? The sycophantic, zealous, astroturfing clap trap usually posted by the former on OSNews and /. bears remarkable similarities to this.
Well, it wasn't totally uninteresting. There were some interesting half-truths sprinkled in the soup:
"The Amiga continues on its slow but steady revival, with developments racking up nicely in both the mobile and desktop environments."
No, the Amiga is dead and not about to be revived. AmigaOS OTOH will be updated, and it will run on third-party hardware, and the "mobile environments" have nothing to do with anything "Amiga". I expected John Chandler of all people to be aware of this, even though I see articles in the uninitiated "main stream" media talking about "new Amigas" and such nonsense.
"Sendo, a UK mobile phone manufacturer, and O2 have inked deals with Amiga Inc which will help establish the AmigaAnywhere platform as a core technology for the future of mobile applications and content."
If this were a corporate marketing announcement, instead of an article on Suite 101 ("Real People helping Real People"), I suppose the prediction about AA being established as a core technology for anything could have its place. Now it doesn't.
"I've also learnt that Olivetti-subsidiary Royal will be making use of AmigaAnywhere in the near future."
You and everybody else who were at AmiWest or read/heard the reports from there...
"For those who thought AmigaAnywhere had faltered, time to think again."
For those who already have come to any conclusion regarding this "Yet Another Content Delivery Layer", time to wait and see. At least until some time after the products have been shipping with it pre-installed, which they haven't. Is this advertisement payed for?
"Development of AmigaOS 4.0 continues at a brisk pace, with new screenshots released of the UI and assorted components such as AmiDock."
Releasing screenshots of GUI components running on OS 3.x does not constitute development in any pace.
"The guys at Hyperion have pulled off a fantastic job since taking on the project, with many aspects scheduled for later 4.x releases being folded into the initial release."
Since according to the initial plans and feature lists, AmigaOS 4.2 and 4.5 would already have been out for quite some time by now, this is quite a meaningless observation. So the version number to be used is still 4.0? Yay. What a fantastic job. Why not just rename the initial release to "3.9.5" and say "look, they worked so hard that they got all this stuff included already in 3.9!"
"As previously mentioned, a greater proportion of the OS will be fully PowerPC-native than had been first planned, which is excellent news - offering a considerably shorter and smoother transition period."
Ummm, hello? Logic paging John Chandler, please report to the information desk! If OS4 had been released with these "new" features at the first planned date, then yes your observation would've been correct. Now OS4 is released LATER than the initially planned date, which is why your observation is, if not nonsensical, totally irrelevant.
"Several other Linux distributions have been made available for the new hardware and the MorphOS team announced recently that MorphOS has also been successfully ported. This is all good news, ensuring that the hardware will receive a suitably broad user base essential for future development and funding. In fact, the partnership between MAI Logic (who provide key technology for the AmigaOne motherboard) and Eyetech has blossomed, with a long-term commitment announced by both parties."
I don't know what to say. This is just PATHETIC!
Linux running on a mobo that ALWAYS has been running Linux (yes, even since before Eyetech and Mai had heard of eachother) is not "news". And are you really reducing Mai's TeronCX to a "key technology" of the "AmigaOne"? It IS the "AmigaOne" damnit! Also, the "partnership" (LOL) between Mai and Eyetech has not yet started to blossom, since the "partnership" constitutes Eyetech being a distributor of Mai's products, and that distribution has not yet begun.
"The BIOS has been upgraded to deal with the increased demands, leading to a joint Eyetech-Hyperion development that has ported the PPCboot firmware to the new hardware."
Sigh. What "increased" demands? AmigaOS may have "other" demands than all other OSes that can use Open Firmware, but surely not "increased" compared to e.g. Linux. After switching to PPCBoot, there are however increased demands on the firmware, since this firmware was originally designed for low-end embedded devices. I also have a hard time seeing *Eyetech* of all people and companies having the competence to do any firmware development. This is a PPCBoot-community/Mai/Hyperion project.
"Looking good."
Looking astroturfed.
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