[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 13:54 GMT | In reply to Comment 59 (takemehomegrandma): To clarify:
Is Pegasos+MorphOS an Amiga? No, not officially (of course not), because it's not branded as an Amiga. But *to me*, "Amiga" is about so much more than a brand name on a sticker. Especially since AmigaInc brands a product so totally unrelated to "Amiga" as the AmigaDE is, as Amiga! The brand name "Amiga" has no value to me anymore, but the *platform* has. The *platform*, which offers a possibility to run your Amiga programs and use your computer as the Amiga you are used to and gives you the same joy and feeling when using it. The *platform* still has it's values. And IMO you should look at OS4, MorphOS (and perhaps even AROS) as different OS distributions on that *platform*. And if you call the *platform* "Amiga", then you could, in a way (perhaps not totally correct), call Pegasos+MorphOS "Amiga". It's not "Amiga (TM)", but it's "Amiga Platform". At least to me. So why am I so stubborn in calling it the "Amiga Platform" when the name "Amiga" has no meaning to me anymore? Well, it's not really about the name "Amiga". It's just that all the new OS distributions available (and not yet available) are reimplementations of the same old AmigaOS3.1. They all have some alterations and improvements, but the common factor is the AmigaOS3.1. The user experiance and API set by the AmigaOS3.1 is what unites the different OS distributions. That uniting factor's name is "Amiga" and when one speaks about "Amiga Platform" in general everybody knows what you are talking about, as well as when you go more specific and talk about OS4, MorphOS and AROS as different members on that platform. So it's just a way of simplifying communication. You could talk about the Windows platform (with it's different OS'es), you could talk about the Mac platform (with it's different OS'es), and people know of which platform you are talking about, people know what software you can run and what user experiance you would get. And you can talk about the Amiga Platform, and it's the same thing. People knows what you are talking about. |
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