I agree, the AmigaOne's greatest userbase will be in the mass-market
A500/A1200 form.
I reccommend the MicroA1 mini-ITX formfactor motherboard.
We need another Deluxe Paint style combo with games, wordprocessing
and things like that in one 300-Euro package.
It will be competing directly with the next wave of consoles such as
Nintendo Revolution, Sony Playstation³ and X-Box 2. I therefore think
a vanilla colour would be more recognisable.
Sega messed up when it abandoned it's most loved brand the
Genesis/Megadrive and Sony kept the Playstation `P' logo.
We need to revert back to the colourful, eBay/Google/Playstation style
Amiga-Tick. I never liked the BoingBall or the red-triangled AMIGA
lettering.
I want a unique system and we HAVE to get inward investment from 3rd
party Japanese companies. We cannot rely on American partners who will
be mostly looking towards the console companies.
If things picked up maybe Sun could be brought into things or maybe
IBM to mass produce the hardware rather than Eyetech or whoever is
doing them.
Another thing we need to make sure of is that Pegasos/Morphos doesn't
drag the Amiga brand down with it's seperatist movement. If
Pegasos/Morphos users are happy with their machine that's good, but
they should let the Amiga users choose to stick with AmigaOS4 should
it become succesful.
Eric Schwartz would make a great artwork assistant though wouldn't he?
Also, there is a trend now for joysticks with built in computers like
the Atari VCS joystick with games in that plugs into a TV set. Amiga
has always been the towerless-keyboard and this theory has recently
been exploited by a PC manufacturer as seen elsewhere on Amiga.org.
We need to capitalise on what we have, and innovate to suit the wider
audience. If classic Amiga sold 6m then we have to sell 100m to
compete with the Playstation².
And finally, the Japanese love small things. They love the PC
Engine/Megadrive/Playstation - they hate the X-Box. Small is best.
Thin is best. Unique, novel, fun, sharing are all popular things
now...
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