[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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Posted by takemehomegrandma on 04-Jan-2003 13:21 GMT | In reply to Comment 58 (Analnymous): :-)
> Q: I have but one simple question. Is Windows XP, Windows 98? Yes or No.
You are trying to make a point by using different version numbers. But that would make as much sence as talking about "AmigaOS1.3 and AmigaOS3.1". If you want to make an analogy to my post, using different versions of Windows (or AmigaOS for that matter) as an example, it would be like this:
Q: Is newer versions of Windows still Windows? Yes or No.
And the answer would be:
A: How do you define "Newer versions of Windows"? Ability to use it the same way as you allways used Windows, the same programs, the same feeling, etc? Then it's a "Yes". And it's improved, both in HW and SW. The brand sticker? Then it's of course still a "Yes".
> ..So, is MOS an Amiga? Yes or no? ;-)
Well that depends on how you define "Amiga". I guess that such definitions is very different from person to person. What's important to *you*? So again:
Is it the ability to use it the same way as you allways used Amigas, the same programs, the same feeling, etc? Then it's a "Yes" (of course without the official name and brand sticker). And it's improved, both in HW and SW.
Is it the brand sticker that makes it an Amiga? Released by "Amiga Inc", etc? Then it's of course a "No" (but nevertheless "Amiga like").
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