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[News] "IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS"ANN.lu
Posted on 31-Oct-2000 09:27 GMT by Paul9 comments
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Paul quotes an article on I.T. that says: We, as a company, are focusing all of our attention on OEMs (original equipment manufacturers), says McEwen. We have a consortium in Japan of 63 companies and this will be using our stuff on a whole new breed of handhelds.
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 1 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by m0ns00n on 30-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
This is an interesting factor. As handhelds will become more and more useful, and hopefully more available, like "handheld phones", we might see an uprising for Amiga, and hopefully a capital flow which they need.
Now, Amiga! Please start a competition where Amigans and others alike, participate in making a real aethetic homepage presentation for you! You need a new homepage! And in the competition, one of the key goals must be cross compatability between browsers! The main goal must be the looks, so that newcomers will say: "Ahh, Amiga _is_ alive!" - not just - this page represents amateurs. Sorry, but this is the general oppinion from a design point of view.
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 2 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by John Block on 30-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
Stupid question:
"Amiga are also developing an Internet radio device"
What is an internet radio device?
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 3 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by m0ns00n on 30-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 2 (John Block):
An internet radio device is a "machine" which is made for internet radio alone - ie it looks like a normal radio, just that is uses a connection to the internet for transmission of "radio signals". This opens up the world of an "infinite" number of radio channels to the end user, who doesn't even need the slightest knowledge of computers. The common internet radio device sits in your kitchen, playing music and delivering news.
Put short, it is a radio which uses the internet instead of radio waves. This is why it is really not a radio at all, but a networked and transmitting, programmed "audio.device" ;o) A net radio is virtually like a hardware version of the realplayer. Amiga is therefore suggestion, as many others do, an alternative for computer nerds and the opposite alike.
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 4 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by AmiFreak on 30-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 3 (m0ns00n):
I'm just wondering how usefull such a device would be.
Currently portable communication (including portable internet i.e. WAP) is extremely expensive. And with the huge ammounts of money companies had to pay for UMTS frequenties I don't think this will change in the near future.
I don't see people paying huge ammounts of money just to be able to listen to music/news when there are alternatives such as (portable) mp3 players and FM radio's.
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 5 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by szutoman on 30-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (AmiFreak):
Internet Radio will be HUGE!! Look past the "sound" and see the bigger picture(-:
I myself can think of 10 extremely useful and patentable applications for a internet radio, on of them being napster and an application(-:
Thats all I got to say on this right now(-:
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 6 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by XybeX on 30-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 4 (AmiFreak):
I think you might have misunderstood, I believe (although I'm not certain) that the Internet Radio Device is not (at least to begin with) "portable" but rather a convenient way for "non-techies" to listen effortlessly to internet radio via a network and not having to have a computer running.
There is at least 1 such a device available already that I know of.
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 7 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by MAS on 30-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
An Idea. With PS2 out in the U.S. now (and kind of hard to get) - and
Sony as interested in convergence as they seem to be - Mabey it's time
to try & talk Sony into making the Amiga DE the layer on which to build
an internet capability for the PS2. Just give Amiga Inc. permission to
create & market a CD that can convert the PS2 into an internet appliance.
Sell it for about half the cost of a PS2 game ($25.00 US), and mabey throw
in a couple of ported games - just for grins - get it on theshelves at Best
Buy, and watch the money come rolling in. It might keep folks from looking
at the X-Box when Microshaft jumps in.
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 8 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by Troels Ersking on 31-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 7 (MAS):
That have been discoussed over and over again.... Why should Sony let Amiga produce the DE for Ps2? They could just aswell license the Tao stuff themselves I bet they have more (inhouse)programmers than Amiga to prepare it for ps2.
Offcourse I still hope there will be some connection with Sony (or sega or nintendo) but I don't think it's realistic to think there are.
"IT: Amiga hangs its second coming on a scalable OS" : Comment 9 of 9ANN.lu
Posted by MAS on 31-Oct-2000 23:00 GMT
In reply to Comment 8 (Troels Ersking):
As I understand it, Sony does not have an internet set-up worked out yet. The way
to make it happen might be to offer to do it for free in exchange for the right
to sell & market the software - doing Sony a favour in effect. Sure they could
license the TAO OS, but that wouldn't get them a browser or any 3rd. party SW.
It would also be a good idea to make a deal with a few of the free ISP's & bundle
them with the PS2 IA software. These internet appliances that tie you to an ISP
(Compact's, Gateways, & M$ Web TV) are not going to be of interest to many con-
sumers. I think the people at Oracle are on the right track for creating an IA
(go to thinknic.com). Amiga should adopt a similar strategy and make sure the DE
will run on the new Sony console. Mabey they can backward engineer it and sell it
without Sony's permission. Connectix seems to have gotten away with this on their
Virtual Game Station product.
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