[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 19-Mar-2003 17:20 GMT | In reply to Comment 61 (Ole-Egil): @Ole-Egil,
Good point about Sun's hardware being too expensive for the consumer market.
You know, I don't think they sell box 'one' to the consumer market. Oh I'm sure there is an exception or two, but they have virtually no presence in the consumer market with their Sparc Hardware.
However, if I wanted a dba box to play around with $1400 is a bargain to
test my configurations before moving them onto a development server, where
while still pre-production, I might be impacting the work of 10 developers.
So, its all about what the markets willing to pay.
But Sun has conceded the consumer market, at least with their expensive Sparc hardware.
Are you meaning to tell me Amiga, Inc. has conceded the 'consumer' market?
I mean, only then could a comparison be fair, I think....
Otherwise, we need to compare the AmigaONE to other consumer devices, and there is where we discover that its vastly overpriced. Mac's are overpriced too...and its a difficult thing to get the price down when, one...the volume runs are small, and two, company management has convinced themselves they can get away with a big gouging and somehow keep afloat.
Apple is convinced of it, and they are right, they are profitable and keep afloat. But they are also aware, that in the long term, they must keep prices down and increase marketshare....which they have both lowered prices, and seemingly...have had some success in tiding further marketshare losses (maybe will even grow in the future).
As for Amiga....'they be crazy' |
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