[Web] Top VapourWare Products of 2002 | ANN.lu |
Posted on 02-Jan-2003 21:54 GMT by Wrigleys (Edited on 2003-01-03 01:02:01 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä) | 72 comments View flat View list |
Our favourite platform has achieved the number 9 spot for the top ten vapourware products of 2002. http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,57023,00.html for details.
From the article:
"9. The new Amiga: Earlier this year, fans of the Amiga were in a tizzy about the prospect of a revival of the comatose platform: Both new machines and a new operating system were promised. Suffice it to say, neither are readily available.
"Some retailers and the Amiga website are taking orders for systems, but 'selling' and 'shipping' are two very different things," wrote reader Russ Van Winkle.
Swift Griggs added: "I've heard promises now for three years. Amiga Inc. has delivered nothing but lies and hot air now for three years, just like everyone who has come before them in the post-Commodore Amigan holocaust."
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Comment 1 | takemehomegrandma | | 02-Jan-2003 21:10 GMT |
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Comment 4 | Party On! | | 02-Jan-2003 22:20 GMT |
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Posted by Anonymous on 03-Jan-2003 02:32 GMT | In reply to Comment 7 (Anonymous): It says they aren't /readily available/. That's true.
Previously (in say 1999) Duke fans tried to defend DN4 by saying that it wasn't vapour because they'd seen screenshots, or witnessed a demo behind closed doors. Some people have claimed their product wasn't vapour because beta testers were running it (Microsoft in 1998)
If the G3 systems shipped in December count, why not those shipped in June? The quantities aren't all that different, and the customers are receiving the same non-service (Not for ordinary users, blah blah, Linux not properly installed, hardware configuration supplied may not function...). A real shipping product ought to look a whole lot different IMNSHO. |
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