How will Hyperion continue the momentum?

[persia]

They've learned nothing from Steve Jobs, the master of hype.  Don't announce something if you don't have it, at least an evaluation version.

On the 27th Jobs is likely to announce a tablet Mac, he will have it on stage and it will be available in the next week or two.  Once you have created the need you have to fill it right away.  

Of course the Mac tablet will likely cost less and be far more powerful than the X1000...

[persia]

In the end it's all software running on hardware, I don't care what the underlying hardware is, as long as it works and is reasonably priced...

No, it will never be a true Amiga.  That's something for the history books  as something special to many of us.

Now my uses for an Amiga in today's enviroment would be on UAE, namely games.  Which is why I was happy when Neutrino was picked, then Linux kernel was picked.  It gives me a real world enviroment  that can be a next generation Amiga OS and run the old apps (today, zero Amiga apps for me) and games in emulation.  I had hopes for AROS, but alas, I have few of those hopes left for it any more.  As far as hardware, unless it's revolutionary hardware from alien technology, give me solid, fast, and cheap hardware.  I'm far more interested in Freescales' reference tablet http://armdevices.net/2010/01/09/199-chrome-os-tablet-reference-design-based-on-freescale-i-mx515-processor/ then I am X1000.  $199 vs  $1999 is a no brainer for me.

[persia]

Reality is setting in, a likely to be expensive board, with a main processor that is in short supply and the whole system not likely to make a netbook jealous.  There's no momentum here to continue.  There's too much of a time gap between the announcement and delivery.

[persia]

The can make money the same way Amiga Inc does, launder it....

That's really about the only way.

Well aren't you a little optimist.



That reminds me - How do Hyperion actually make money? The OS4 market is small as hell. I know they ported games over to amiga in the 90's, but that can't have lasted, surely? For all we know it could be an Amiga Inc situation where the company only has it's doors open for money laundering, but with a much better cover up.