Ok. Now I'm mad, and I've rewritten this about a dozen times, because -- like an argument you know you'll have with your wife when you get home -- I just knew that the moment that someone posted anything about Amiga's upcoming tablet, all the little negative cockroaches would scurry out from the cupboard to do anything they could to trash the idea.
As such, I've had time to get my proverbial blood ready to boil, and -- to no one's surprise -- sure enough, you guys are true to form in your bitching and moaning...
Suffice to say... The Amiga "community" will never get it.
If it's not a dead-ended, 10x overly-expensive PowerPC-based piece of crap, you guys will never accept anything that anyone does. Even if it *is* the aforementioned piece of crap, you guys sit around here bitching about it and picking it apart until there's really no point any more.
How many people have tried to bring anything to the table (including Genesi) only to get sick and tired of dealing with this rabid community and move their attentions elsewhere?
Seriously, it's no wonder that this community has pretty much been abandoned by anyone willing to invest real time, effort, and most importantly, money into any forward-looking venture.
Just to seem redundant, if not to push my point, this is EXACTLY why I told Bill not to even bother with posting it here when he let me in on their ideas and plans.
Time to face facts guys.
Unless you're willing to be openly shafted by hobbyists trying to get your hard-earned money for antiquated toys (and oh boy I wish I cared enough to rip you all off -- erm, I mean develop said toys), the Antiquated Amiga (as most of you seem desperate to continually define it) is dead.
Much like dog years, in computer terms, the Commodore Amiga platform is roughly 97 years old, having been forced to retire when Commodore died at age 70.
Sure, there are some old boxes that refuse to die, but time isn't on their side, and let's face it, unless you're one of those people who have dozens of Amigas in your garage, when yours dies, there's probably a 99.9% chance that you'll just move on to a real computer.
I don't intend to slight those of you who like hanging out with your grandparents (or in this case, their computer) but damn. I mean.. damn..
While I wish there were something more "Amiga" about an Android tablet, and even though I already own a far superior iPad, even *I* think that the move towards supporting Android is the right way to go for Amiga Inc.
Especially if they can eventually work to bring something new to the table and maybe even provide something unique for it, like a developer program, and (God forbid) community for it.
The way I see it, you can either be part of the problem, or part of the solution, and hell, even I'll probably toss in to buy an Amiga Android tablet, if for no other reason than to get in on the ground floor of developing for it.
It'll be cheap enough.
Are you so afraid of Amiga Inc actually producing anything that you're willing to suffer through getting nothing at all, or even worse, actively trying to destroy any chance they have of succeeding?
Really?
Wayne
