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Could Amiga find a special (non-vintage) niche?
« on: May 25, 2009, 02:08:20 AM »
Could Amiga find a special (non-vintage) niche that is not being filled well by Win/Mac/Linux PCs?  Or is there *nothing* at all that hasn't already pretty-much reached full maturity?  I haven't come up with anything.
 

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Re: Could Amiga find a special (non-vintage) niche?
« Reply #1 on: May 25, 2009, 02:59:02 AM »
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Why have you turned your back to Amiga? Ask that yourself sometime please. Because everyone else went for Microsoft products? Well, sometimes its just wise to go the way you want to go! Try that sometime and you find another side of your life :)

I am an Amiga "loyalist" -- maybe you can tell by my avatar.  I certainly have *not* turned my back on Amiga, and I won't.  (Unfortunately, I cannot use Amiga for everything -- e.g. credit card processing for my business through Elavon).  

I would like my questions above to be interpreted more positively, if possible.  (Yes, I could have worded better.)  Clearly, Amiga was first to do some things very well.  The true pioneer!  Is there anything left for computers to do today that has not been done well?  That is a real question that I have, not a rhetorical one.  Thanks, -Dave
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Re: Could Amiga find a special (non-vintage) niche?
« Reply #2 on: May 25, 2009, 06:08:50 AM »
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hmmm...

You'd have to decide whether there are other things a cpu could be used for perhaps? Something that isn't being done very well or at all by existing setups. Trouble is how is one going to design something totally specific and only possible to run on Amiga endorsed HW? If anything was to come out in this vein it won't take a rocket scientist to go, hey cool, what if we attached this to blah blah blah with the extra grunt. And if you had a competely stand alone unit no benefited from a connection to the host system then why market it for a niche market...


Not sure I agree with you here.  There are too many examples of things moving toward PC integration versus away from it -- whether or not you're talking about a niche -- and they don't seem to be moving back to a stand alone unit.  for example, pro video production moved onto PC (Mac).  Same can be said about arcane stuff, such as control of astronomical telescopes for large surveys.