Some are fans who still Believe. Greenboy has had reason to Disbelieve and has gone looking for a more dynamic company to partner with. Good luck, gb, I hope you have more success there.
I don't Believe in AInc anymore. My Faith has been worn down by years of neglect. I paid $ to Phase5 for a PPC, then lost that gamble. I bought the DE SDK but it seems to have been left to rot. I bought the $50 'coupon', knowing that it was probably another $50 down the drain. That's OK, I intended to lose it, like a gambler at the pokies (slots).
I still have Faith in Eyetech to deliver me a new board to play with. At least I'll be able to play with that. And PLAY is the operative word. Most of the Phoenix crowd are trying to make money out of computing hardware/software/whatever. Their demand for action is a bit more urgent than mine, which is merely for a desktop toy to play with.
Let's face it, the Amiga desktop will never be more than a toy until the Adobes and Microsofts of this world provide applications for it. I don't need them, I can have fun writing do-nothing software, designing do-nothing hardware and porting unknown languages to an unused platform. When I have to do serious work, it's back to the PC.
At the moment, Genesi seem to be the go-ahead, keen-to-do-business crowd. I wish them well, I hope it develops. I hope Ainc develops, too. I will depend on neither.
I'll play with my XE G4, with Linux, then when AOS4 comes out, I'll play with that. It really isn't something to get all hot about, it's just a toy.
tony
