Bon,
If I remember correctly the Amiga never has had lots of software. Even on other platforms there are only a handful of really successful apps.
What there is has been very good quality. Lightwave is still catching up in some areas but I remember it far exceeded the competition in the simple but dramatic things like shadows, motion blur or even booleans. Photogenics is similiar. It was quite painful to get used to Photoshop after using Photogenics.
The Mac kinda shows the way in that it allows the buyer to produce stuff straight out of the box and the iApps are very good at that.
I would like the focus to be that the Amiga allows buyers to communicate well straight out the box.
For example I may have an icon of Auntie Jenny and I want to send her a pic/music/text. I can drag/drop it from a folder or my browser window. If I recieve a file it appears below her icon as a thumbnail and a click opens it.
When she's online her icon flashes on the desktop and we talk by clicking on her icon and typing inside a speech bubble that appears and she replies in another speech bubble. No windows to get in the way and it looks and acts seemlessly.
Any selected text or image should be drag/drop so that we can simply drag any quote, adress or url into another window or onto an icon.
Acessing to the Amiga.org forums or any forum should be done from the desktop. Subscriptions to newsletters mimick the 'letter box' concept but again these should appear on the desktop in a user controllable fashion.
I should be able to select an area of the desktop and type or draw straight onto it. I should be able to pic this up and use it where I want. I should be able to type a sum on the desktop and it gives me the answer. I should be able to type commands onto the desktop and the computer responds.
In short I think the Amiga should focus on being an intuative communication system.
Valan
