[Rant] Open letter to Fleecy Moss and Amiga, Inc. | ANN.lu |
Posted on 18-Mar-2003 15:16 GMT by Seehund | 83 comments View flat View list |
I sent Amiga, Inc. and Fleecy Moss an open letter in response to his statements on AmigaWorld.net and in Total Amiga Magazine about the hardware market restrictions imposed on AmigaOS. You can read it here.
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Posted by MarkTime on 18-Mar-2003 17:28 GMT | In reply to Comment 23 (Anonymous): The amiga market cannot survive without the hardware sales?
The amiga market has survived without both hardware and software sales.
But I agree, borrowing money from rabid fans is not a long term solution.
The petitioners are actually trying to help both Amiga and themselves.
They help themselves by being able to purchase AmigaOS4 for their platform choice. Not pirate it, *purchase it*...it is the lack of support for those platforms that encourages *piracy*...more of the world turned upside down from Amiga, Inc.
The open hardware plan helps amiga, because Amiga gets more sales.
You can say, well its only available for Amigaone and maybe certain configuration of Cyberstorm, get over it.
Well most Amigan's left are not going to buy that version of OS4, get over it.
I will not pay 800 for a motherboard under any circumstances, and I'm not the only one. Even half of Amiga's supporters don't really have that kind of money, and are just cheerleading for the fun factor. Few will vote with their pocket books in favor of such a scheme.
I grant you an amazing number will buy it, even, I consider 500 people to be a staggering number to throw away that kind of money.....maybe after the initial sales they will try something else....but I'm afraid after a highly public launch, garnering attention, but in the worst way as the press examines 800 dollar motherboards that are sub 1GHz and that are 2xAGP and ancient memory architecture, then the resulting lack of sales....and you get negative momentum.
Will there be a 2nd chance to garner attention, this time with a valid plan for
expanding the market base? They seem to be pinning their hopes on it.
I say, NO. There is one valid, 'last best chance'....and they intend to blow it for a few pennies...
no vision at all. They aren't willing to gamble. |
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