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Re: Directly towards Amiga.Org
« on: January 25, 2007, 03:35:36 PM »
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By the sale of the previous A1's I'm sure they got a clear picture of how many or little people were interested.


Thats not true.  The A1's were only on sale for a very brief period of time.  If you blinked you missed it.  Not all Amiga users had the money to buy one the very second they went on sale.  Others just a little too slow to act, maybe procrastinating for an A2, who knows?  Also, you have the very recent "surge" of interest with a more than a few "returnees".  In other words there was a lot more interest in the A1 than there were sales of A1s.  This is natural.  Given even just a little more time, I'm certain they would have sold many more A1s.  I myself was all ready to buy one from "Mr Hardware" in New York.  I called him back two weeks after my initial inquiry, cash in hand, ready to buy a new A1.  Instead I got, "The number you have dialed has been disconnected, no further information is available....".  Needless to say, I do not own an A1.  
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Re: Directly towards Amiga.Org
« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2007, 04:27:06 PM »
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The thing is... Most of us here never left. We've been in since Commodore went bust. Saw companies come, make promices and then go (under). Almost all of us here, have been around since the current incarnation of Amiga, Inc. Seen all the promices and crap.


I'm just curious which "broken promises", specifically, have you upset?  There was the whole Gateway fiasco, but did you expect sunshine and erudition or anything worth a sh1t to come from a PC company, much less a kept promise?  It was obvious Gateway's intent was to harvest Amiga's many patents, nothing more; this is remarkable in itself considering how "un amiga-like" PCs still are today.  Other than that I can't think of that many broken promises to be bitter about...  Sure, there were some, such as Amiga "DE" for devices or whatever..  I consider that a blessing, not a broken promise; It was a stupid concept from the getgo.  

Lots of promises were kept -- delayed perhaps, but kept.  We were promised PCI.  Delivered.  Promised drivers for PCI cards.  Delivered.  Promised USB.  Delivered. Promised PPC.  Delivered.   Promised OS3.5.  Delivered.  3.9?  Delivered.  Bug fixes (bb1 and 2).  Delivered.  Promised G4/G5 acceleration + AGP.  We'll see.  

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Re: Directly towards Amiga.Org
« Reply #2 on: January 25, 2007, 04:44:49 PM »
@Itix

That was kinda my point, that all of this occurred despite Amiga, Inc., not because of them.    
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Re: Directly towards Amiga.Org
« Reply #3 on: January 25, 2007, 05:08:43 PM »
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Imagine..... Apple Inc. then has financial difficulties and after many years is bought out by Bill Gates.


Imagine?   I thought thats what happened actually happened?  :roll:
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