An Amiga in a joystick might sell.
But getting back to Bill, the shell game with K-Mos was shear genius, Amiga Inc would have not survived bankruptcy. But the crazy press releases, the whole Ice Hockey arena thing, the non-existent new hardware, the ridiculous "bigger than iPhone" letter. If I could ask him one question it would be what the #### were you thinking?!?!?!? None of this engenders the kind of confidence you need in IT. You can bluff, but you have to deliver once in a while or your bluffs don't work.
On porting Firefox, could be done, but you need programmers, and they are in short supply. This is a direct result of the community being ignored for so long. People leave and there are no financial incentives. I could spend 10 times longer developing a sucessful Amiga application than a failed iPhone one and be financial rewarded far more for the iPhone app!
It used to be fun when the Amiga was cutting edge, but it isn't, to borrow from another thread, the whole idea of snapshots in 2009 is a bit like film cameras. In order to build apps for the Amiga you have to start from scratch, iPhone gives you all the tools, if I want to add a browser bit to my App calls to the Safari api are right there. And the OS doesn't help you and without memory protection it actually fights you at times.
Sorry about the rant...
Hi Wayne,
Didn't Jeri sell like over a million of those C64 Joysticks on QVC? I think we might all be surprised the number of lurkers that hold Amiga fondly in their hearts who would buy a new computer if it was released. A lot of it depends on price point that they can achieve and if they can get a modern web browser on it. Why is porting Firefox so hard?
-Nyle
