More Micro AmigaOnes Coming

[Velcro_SP]

Mikey_C says "Alan Redhouse has stated that a new batch of Micro AmigaOne's are to be dispatched to dealers who have ordered, within a short period of time."

I can't find the part where he says "short period of time." He does say "So at the moment we are out of stock, we have mostly paid for the next batch and the manufacturer has everything lined up for production except the cpu's. I will post here when we receive them." And then two days ago he said about the "µA1-I" and "A1-XC" that "boards will only go into production when we have volume orders for them from industry."

So I don't see how you can announce "More Micro AmigaOnes Coming" in a "short period of time." You know a lot of people are going to read that and get the idea that they are on the way or something, but I don't see that that is the case.

I would read a lot of uncertainty in all of what Alan Redhouse has straightforwardly said recently. I guess I would interpret it like he has said, that they haven't fully paid for the next batch, and that the availability of CPUs is unknown. "The main reason for the delay has been the availability of cpus at the price IBM originally quoted."  So I think there's a lot of uncertainty there, and people ought to know that, rather than just being told that new A1s are on the way, or coming in a short period of time, as you said.

[Velcro_SP]

Okay I admit, I used a bit of Poetic License. "Short time" To me (Amiga wise) a short time is around a month or so. Now, admittedly, it could take longer. But I read what Alan had posted and to me, it seemed positive that the delivery of the CPU's would not be much longer. If you want to take what he said as meaning they'll be shipping sometime around Christmas, that's your problem

@Mikey_C:

No, he didn't say anything about Christmas either. I'm not going to read any date into what the man said. Going by the sum of what he said though, it doesn't seem like it'll be soon to me. Where's he going to get the money to finish paying the board maker? Where is the board maker going to get the CPUs when IBM doesn't want to sell them at the cheap rate? Didn't Alan just remark that Eyetech would have financially done better to avoid the whole A1 project altogether and gift each A1 owner with $500 instead? "In fact as it stands today it would have been far cheaper for us to have given all current board owners $500 each not to buy a board and walked away from the whole Amiga scene in early 2001." So he is supposed to stick his neck out again to get this new batch on the way soon? Where's the money going to come from?

Anyhow, I don't know if it will be soon or not. I leave that to Eyetech to announce if the boards are on the way and it will be soon. But I definitely don't think headlines should be crafted to put out this "A1s coming" "short time" stuff when Eyetech has just identified some real issues that have to be overcome. I think people who don't examine the 20 questions and details too closely are going to get a wrong idea from this kind of headline and blurb, and surely you don't want that, to lead them on and keep them hanging or something.

As for poetic license... Bill McEwen and Fleecy Moss used poetic license. I suppose "on schedule and rockin'" was a little poetic license. Bill Buck also managed to tick people off with poetic license about "no Mai without April." I think we could use a little less poetic license and a little more factualness.