Review of AmigaOS 4.1.1 / Interview with Simon Archer

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Huh, what a negative vibe I got from that interview...

This is the kind of stuff that made me think twice if I should keep my 4.1 system last year. Sold it because I want Amiga to be a positive thing, not a negative vibration of blame.

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This guy interviewed have left other negative comments about "the community" on aw.net before and I am still fascinated he mentions it in a negative way again.

What are we? a bunch of stereotype faceless Windows idiots running office apps all day long and thinking about how nice Vista is?

No, we are Amigans (may come as a surprise?), some of us been with this computer 25 years and actually wants it back.

Should we should just sit quiet and accept obscure hardware with a smile just because it runs the true arian blonde/blue-eyed AmigaOS built from the core holy grail of AmigaOS?! F"k it, it isnt even called Workbench any more.

I thought modern Amiga was about replacing PC desktops with Amiga, and having a blast while doing it!

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Other then the elitist attitude, I did pick up on a sense of futility in his statements.  If AmigaOne X1000 sales only reach low to mid three digits, one has to question the economic viability of the OS4 market. I have my doubts, and I think he does as well.

Yeah, I actually think X1000 will sell well (as in 'well' in the Amiga market). I think many old Aone owners will buy one to replace their old systems.

(and in a parallell universe, yesterday AmigaOS 4.2 was released for the Acer Aspire One for 99 euro).