AmigaInc screwed AOS(!!?)

[Jose]

This is to share/discuss my opinion with you A.Orgers.
I think by going to mainstream sites and saying AOS5 will be there soon for X86 Bill's completely screwed it up.
To sum up, this is not the direction I had hoped and I don't think the big part of the real Amigans are/will be happy. Real Amigans are the people that kept the platform alive in the hard years.
What will happen is that not only a VERY BIG opportunity was lost, but there won't be so many people buying A1, the old users that could buy it will wait for x86 and pirate it. Even if not, will the number of people not buying A1 anymore, be smaller than the ones buying AmigaOSx86? Sorry I don't think so.
It seems that some companies, and their marketing people don't see how things are in the real world. I don't personally know anyone that has bough one PC app!!

I don't have much time too writte, (and actually starting to don't really give a damn about it) but in my opinion the "Community" whatever is PPC people. The ones wanting X86 for AmigaOS are a small, very vocal minority. Wasn't Amithon supposed to have it's own x86 native code apps? Where are them?!

Also to me Amiga, and PPC would together give a complete different image, marketingwise if you will.
I won't buy an A1 myself anymore as I wanted AOSPPC to be a strong product, or kinda of the direction. It also pisses me that it will be x86. Don't get me wrong, I like the DE though. AInc just wants markets! My impression is that they just want to use the name, and full some people in the community. If not, why didn't they reveal the direction before? The name is still strong as you've seen. Damn I even bough a F**  coupon   :-D
I won't be here very often again so I'd like to say thanks to the people that come in here, specially the hardcore heavy posting ones. It's been cooll reading/posting. :-D  The Amiga is just a computer, so it's not the end of the world, eheh ;-)

[Jose]

Hey :-D. I can't f* chill out. And I don't have time to be here now (!). Just curious to see your opinions on this. Thanks 4 replies anyways.
I don't think there is an "I want AmigaOS on x86" crowd " by the way 8-) .
But I guess I'll chill out in the end and get an A1XE, and then code apps for PPC only :-D (that's if I ever finish learining what needs to be learned, but I guess with PPC assembler you have it all  :-o  :-x  :-D, so it won't be that difficult :-o)  Oh, will AInc. even let you make processor native apps on OS5!?

[Jose]

@MikeB:

Completely Untrue.
That's very, very old. It's meanwhile been said that a change of direction had been made, that DE was 4 PDAs etc. and that 4 desktop it would be tied to hardware. It has even been said that AOS was to be ported to some games console in a some more or less big show I don't remember now.
I hope AInc. goes bankrupt and Hyperion buys the complete OS rights :-D (joke, or maybe...)

[Jose]

"Sadly this is hard to understand for most ordinary users..."

I understand all that completely, been hanging in forums/news time to time since Collas times(before I didn't use internet).
I just don't think the info passed to mainstream websites is clever at all. Saying what they said, is like saying, hey wait don't buy it know...Wonder if it's that Mickeysoft employee they contracted  :-D

[Jose]

@Rodney:
Like I said somewhere, I remember it was said in a show that there was a change of direction and it was gonna be tied to PPC (desktop). But nevermind that...it was probably another bad interview!(?)

@Glaucus

It won't do very well with these interviews to mainstream sites that get read by millions of people.
It just doesn't make any sense and it's probably a mistake. I hope it can be corrected, but wich mainstreamsite is gonna post that there was a mistake and it's not like that after all!? A shame really! The Amiga Curse strikes again!

We have this great product but there's another one coming in soon that will substitute it, and it will be better, cheaper, run on your computer...etc...!!!!!