Question: AmigaMMC's abrupt end and the dismissal of Jim Collas were a big surprise to many and hard to understand. Do you know what made Gateway take this step?
PT: I think Microsoft wasn't so innocent in the whole matter. Gateway was a PC producer and co-operated closely with Microsoft. Microsoft definitely didn't want to have a new platform as competition.
Wait, so the dancer Jim was shagging was in fact a cunning plan by microsoft to use honey pot set to destroy Amiga?
GODDAMNIT!
/sarcasm
Even in 1997, Microsoft had the home desktop market sewn up. Yes, they strongarmed vendors to stop other OS's getting into a position where they might become a threat. But tbh the effort put behind the Amiga was so bipolar and messy, it was never going to get to the point where Microsoft would even notice them.
