Discussing strategy of parties involved in the amiga-market (Hardware/OS)

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I disagree with the strategy of a-eon at the moment.

So just another thread to repeat the same thing for the hundried of time, (beyond) annoying.
So stop caring. You have cheaper OS4 machines from Acube. Second hand Macs with MorphOS or an old x86 machine that is not good enough anymore for Windows with AROS.
I myself won't likely buy an A-eon machine but I don't fill amiga.org with this same old crap.
This is how capitalism works:
- companies decide on a strategy
- consumers decide to buy or not
- If not enough consumers buy, company goes bankrupt.
At the moment AEon seems to have more customers then they can make machines.

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If you feel this latest thread is yet another in a long line of "waste of time" discussions about something that cannot be changed; it is your prerogative to think that way but you should not really be upset because no one is forcing you to read them.

I could agree if the thread was properly named as "Another OS4 bashing attempt" or "For those who have been living under a rock: I don't like AEon's strategy".

I think Olaf has every right to argue about the X1000 and OS4 in this thread. This is where it should be.
Contrary to popular belief, most OS4 users are willing to discuss OS4, their NG Amigas in a constructive way.

Problem is that currently any constructive OS4 discussion is almost impossible on aorg as a handful of posters fill all these threads with how wrong the OS4 strategy is. I would be very happy if this thread could in the end change that situation. Reason I still read OS4 threads is just in the hope for once an actual discussion could take place and not a repetition of the theme of the cost of OS4 hardware; or how evil Ben Hermans is; or how much better MOS is; ...

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Some people are claiming Hyperion should follow the same strategy as the MorphOS team and port OS4 to Macs. I feel it is just good that Hyperion and MorphOS team have different strategies so people who like new hardware can choose the OS4 route, the ones who don't mind running an Amiga OS on second hand and cheaper hardware can go the MOS route (or even AROS).
If both teams would follow the same strategy I think the direct competition would be more harmful than advantageous in such a small community.
Or is there something the Mac with MOS users are missing ?