I`m confused! Genesi VS Amiga.Inc....the saga continues.......

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T_Bone wrote:

I know this is kind of offtopic, but how come it's OK for a consumer to be forced to use specific hardware, but it's tyranny when a business must do so?

Is that supposed to be ironic, or are you really saying that?

Do you have an AmigaOne? No? Then how come you are forced to use a specific hardware? NO ONE IS FORCING YOU TO BUY AN AMIGAONE. It's an offer. Take it, or do not take it. Apple does it the same way. Even Microsoft (or does Windows XP run on a 68k Amiga? I don't think so).

You might want to ask Apple why they have chosen to go this way and produce OS X for Apple-branded machines only. The point is that the producer of a software decides which platform it runs on.

Hell, I'd be just as happy to have hardware removed from the picture entirely.

And then what? Run it on thin air? I'm sorry to tell you, since it obviously escapes your attention, but computer programs usually *do* run on hardware, so it is kind of difficult to remove it from the picture.

Alternatively, you are one of the deluded few that think that Operating systems just port themselves to a different platform. I can assure you that this is wrong (I've tried putting the OS 4 CD next to my Mac and guess what - nothing happened).

So pray, how do you intent to "have hardware removed from the picture entirely".

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takemehomegrandma wrote:
Maybe Hyperion will recieve an offer soon too? :-?

Maybe. I don't see the relevance, though.

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Jupp3 wrote:

Microsoft Windows XP does run on most "IBM compatible" machines, not just "one specific model"

AmigaOS runs on most "Amiga compatible" machines, not just "one specific model".

Point being?

Becouse that way they can put higher price tag on the product. If they had chosen X86 instead of PPC, there would have people asking "Why can't I just install it on cheaper IBM compatible PC?" and eventually there would have been something, like "MacOnLinux" for standard PC's ages ago.

Oh year, that is a good, qualified reasoning :-) LOL!

But just lately they have noticed, that they can't get more user/developerbase unless they lower the prices, and they've considered doing X86 version of MacOS X afaik.

That's the usual dream-on type of rumour frequently used by x86 addicts. Fact is there is an x86 version of Darwin, but that hasn't concinved Apple to go for the x86 market.

Face it, the producer chooses the hardware. If they feel they prefer PowerPC, it's what they do. As long as people are buying (and obviously they are) this is the way it works. All "they could sell so much more on x86" is pure speculation.