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Amiga: agora, em qualquer lugar
A clássica marca de computadores pessoais está de volta com
uma tecnologia que leva os recursos multimídia mais sofisticados às plataformas móveis


Quick translation of the above from Mobilezone for those who don't speak Portuguese

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Amiga: Now in any place

The classic brand of personal computers has returned with technology that brings the most sophisticated multimedia applications to mobile platforms.


Whether the above is accurate is arguable but it seems like a nice deal for Amiga Inc - the more people selling their games the better (for them).  

Of course it makes no difference whatsoever to AmigaOS or the Amiga computer (or at least about as much relevance as a news item about a web retailer selling C= branded MP3 players would have on a C64 fan site)

I noticed some wild innacuracies in the 'About Amiga' section on mobilezone.  After the traditional paragraph talking about the success of the Amiga in the 80's and 90's and the Video Toaster etc, it goes on to tell people that

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Just as personal computing has evolved over the last ten years, so has the operating system of Amiga computers (AmigaOS) evolved and changed.

Today, AmigaOS is available for development of games and applications for Interactive TV, Smartphones, Pocket PC's, Smartphones, Linux and Windows among other platforms.


Obviously they seem to have no idea that AmigaAnywhere is nothing to do with AmigaOS, or that AmigaOS4 even exists, instead believing that AmigaAnywhere is somehow an evolution of the Amiga Operating System.  That needs to be put right, I would say.
 

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Re: Mobilezone and Amiga Introduce Amiga Content Across Braz
« Reply #1 on: May 03, 2006, 06:45:30 PM »
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Here in Brazil Amiga is still compared to MSX2 computers, and most people never heard about Amigas or AmigaOS. But, that is cool that AmigaAnywhere is licensed to a Brazilian company.


This is not surprising.  Technology of any sort has been very expensive in Brasil, because of import taxes.  

Today an iMac 20" from Mac Store XPress in Ipanema is R$8790,00 - that's $4254 USD, while the exact same machine costs $1699 in the USA.  It's the same story with cellphones, PDA's, and anything else not manufactured in Brasil.  Many people buy their computer in Paraguay and drive back to Brasil with it.