[News] Letting the World Know | ANN.lu |
Posted on 20-Nov-2002 04:10 GMT by amigammc | 216 comments View flat View list |
On the Amiga Website you'll find a joint communicate from Amiga, Hyperion and Eyetech.
November 19, 2002 - With the AmigaOne now shipping and AmigaOS4.0 in its final stages of development and testing, the time has come to begin letting the rest of the world know the good news, that the Amiga is alive, well and ready to let the World have fun with computing again.
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Comment 1 | Steve | | 20-Nov-2002 06:09 GMT |
Comment 2 | m0ns00n | | 20-Nov-2002 06:30 GMT |
Comment 3 | m0ns00n | | 20-Nov-2002 06:31 GMT |
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Posted by iSteve on 20-Nov-2002 06:48 GMT | Does anyone really, deep down, believe that developers will start writing software for OS 4.0? (I'm not talking shareware here, but professional applications, commercial games).
Does anyone really, deep down, believe that the AmigaOne will sell in numbers higher than 1,000 - 2,000 tops when there is no commercial support and an OS that does not offer half the features available with modern operating systems like Mac OS X?
If Amiga really wants a comeback and a worldwide presence to set out it's stall, it should start by getting people's feet wet. Give them a freely downloadable version of AmigaOS that works with their existing hardware (by and large, this means x86), using a Linux or BSD kernel to provide hardware drivers, with AmigaOS GUI built on top and internal emulation to support existing Amiga apps. Then give it away and let people experiment with it. Even make it GPL so that people really feel they have a say over it's development and can get involved and contribute to the project.
Once AmigaOS is a viable solution again, then Amiga can step in with word processors, spreadsheets, office apps, OS extensions, manuals, t-shirts.. and the like and target it at their new market.
Right now, there IS no market. 2,000 customers is not a market. And a customer hardware platform running an outdated operating system will NOT sell to the general public in meaningful numbers. Deep down, we all know that, too. We need to start facing reality. This is nothing more than a quick cash cow for Amiga Inc. |
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