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Re: So part of my resolution: Treat amiga as its own beast
« on: January 03, 2011, 05:44:30 PM »
The amiga, for me, was about creativity.

I believe it still could be, but that means continued evolvement.  Being frozen at a point in time isn't creativity, it's stagnation.

Apple continues to evolve, and admirably so.  So OS X Lion will have a built-in app store, iPad style launch pad - lessons learned from the iPad, now migrating back to Mac OS X.

The Amiga had a unique value proposition - at one time it was custom chips, which produces quality results at a reasonable cost, it had multitasking when that wasn't yet standard.  Arexx scripting, draggable screens, not every idea was invented at commodore, but they put together their own package, unique from Mac and IBM.

To me the Amiga would need to continue to evolve and have it's own unique experience - neither frozen in time nor mimicking entirely competitors - although a standards based web browser, is a nice mimic :)

well anyway, I haven't made any new years resolutions for 2011 in regards to amiga.

LOL good luck with that, and I wish everyone a prosperous year.