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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« on: June 28, 2002, 03:09:18 AM »
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I don't think current high end system can quite be labeled retro.


Amiga = retro now ? Maybe not, but we are are on the road to nowhere,
and there is nothing that could stop us.

Amithlon/AROS/MOS/OS4 may slow down the decline, but there is no way
we'll ever see enough users again to have a really profitable platform (>500k).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #1 on: June 28, 2002, 03:25:26 AM »
@Coder
1st thanks for giving me a reason to pull even with whabang again  :-D

Just look at the features/extras you would get with WinXP/OSX "for free"
and you should understand that the Amiga isn't interesting for the masses.

To get some interest, you would need lots and lost of SW that is up to the
competition. like brand-new/exclusive games, browsers and office-SW.

Developers are only investing if they see a market thats big enough.
For that you'll have to have something of interest for the masses.

To get some interest, you would need lots and lost of SW that is up to the
competition. like brand-new/exclusive games, browsers and office-SW.

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There is no way out of this  :-x  :-x

But there is still a chance to become(stay) the 2nd "geek-system"
alongside Linux(BSD).
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #2 on: June 28, 2002, 11:14:02 AM »
@Loki
1. G3-Systems for >1000Euro (including case, monitor...) are simply
not competetive to the x86s, and the SW-base isn't good enough to make
people switch in masses.
2. And whohas the resources to do all the viewers, the games, the web-stuff ?
Noone in this tiny market.
3. And what could that bring ? Most people expect to buy their stuff just around
the corner, and I don't new dealers popping up in masses, or the A1 in the
next department-store.


Face the Amiga is a hobby for the informed few.
The chance to become the leader on the desktop was destroyed
by C=, and the one to stay a major player by Escom.

Don't forget this is 2002 and not 1985. It's impossible to bring
a completly new system to the market (the last on e that had some success
was the Archimedes). Even building on the currrent market they won't
reach many outsiders unless they would spend >100000000$ to develop
something groundbreaking. Noone has that kind of money.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else
 

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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #3 on: June 28, 2002, 10:24:30 PM »
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....might have to start acting responsibly soon too !


Hope that never happens to me  :-D

Still my best wishes !
And being uncle is not that bad as long as you don't have to babysit.
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Re: Moo Bunny is dropping Amiga content , going to iMac.
« Reply #4 on: June 28, 2002, 11:04:00 PM »
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Amiga proved in 1985 that you CAN launch a new platform

That was in 1985, before there was a need for all the browser and players.
The was a high amount (compared to other systems of that time) of money
invested in the Amiga and the result was grounbreaking HW and a
promising OS. Still the company that developed it went bust before they
could sell one single maschine.

The AOne (and Pegasos) are NOT groundbreaking in HW and the OS won't
make many heads move outside the "community".
This won't change until you invest 100s of million of $ to compete with the
likes of NVidia or ATI.

After that you would have HW that was up with TODAYS competition, but still
no "killer-apps" and no top-notch exclusie games to gain some consumer
interest. NVidia/ATI/?? won't sleep during the time of development and
definitly not afterwards. While your chips are restricted to one systems,
theirs run on all the others securing them the funds for continous developing.


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Does Mr Citizen know what "PC compatibility" means? Hell no! His kids want a computer and here's a way he can get into computing without paying an arm and a leg.


The first thing that "Mr Citizen" will ask the salesman is if this no
computer can run all the available learnig-SW for his kids, if it can view the
latest web-pages, and if his kids can use the knowledge they will get on
this system in their further lifes.
1. Make an announcment.
2. Wait a while.
3. Check if it can actually be done.
4. Wait for someone else to do it.
5. Start working on it while giving out hillarious progress-reports.
6. Deny that you have ever announced it
7. Blame someone else