Optimism and the Amiga Community

[Manu]

I agree mostley with Bill and jarrody2k
Eventually OS4 hardware comes out, but hardly this year.
I lost interest and I will probably never get my hands
on any hardware that runs OS4. Amiga Inc's silence
tells alot about how interested they are in bringing
in more users to Amiga OS. The embedded "thing" is bullox
to me.I have zero / nada interest in such things.
AROS seems to get better and better so I'll keep my eye
on that and continue using my XP. IMO Amiga will stay hobbyist forever with a very tiny userbase.

Signed,
The Pessimist.

[Manu]

jarrody2k wrote:

bhoggett wrote:
Just to add that my earlier assessment does not include the minimig project. IMHO that belongs in the retro scene and as such has nothing to do with revitalising the Amiga as a platform, even if it may well find a successful niche for itself. This also means it is not a target for the criticisms I expressed earlier.

Does Amiga need to exist as a new desktop to live on?

To me that is an absolute must. Of course it could go
embedded, beat the **** out of symbian and exist on
every phone in the futre (or NOT) Anyway, that is not
the Amiga I learned to use so it makes no difference
to me (Btw I hate cellulars.)

AmigaOS was great for its time.  Perhaps to this day would still be considered very agile and still relevant to the modern desktop.  But as with BeOS we really don't have the resources to compete with Windows (or the more mature Linux solutions) in terms of being a viable and supported desktop alternative.

IMO competition is not the problem, Amiga is not up-to-date yet so competition is out of the question.
Focus should be on the basic stuff

-getting it out to users easily.
-make it interesting for old developers to try it out without having to invest a great deal of money
-not chaining it to special hardware that only makes more excuses to NOT inverst money in Amiga again.