Just what the HELL is Bill doing ?

[xaccrocheur]

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2002/dec02/12-18pocketpc.asp

I'm really confused by this article.

Quotes such as "I recently took my son to a children's concert and was quietly playing some of the games from the pack on my Pocket PC Phone Edition. " Made me feel bad.

Not so much for realizing that Bill is a poor father  8-)  :-P  but more for reading this *blatant flattering lowtech advert* towards erm.. What should I say here... Plain reality, The enemy ?  :-?  :-?

Others like " The cool thing is that with a Pocket PC and an Amiga Anywhere Game Pak, you have a device that is better than Gameboy and an excellent organizer" Made me YELL ! This is STUPID ! False at best !

I mean, did I miss something  ? I though Amiga just wanted to logically enter the mobile market, partnering with the right guys, Sharp, Symbian and such, but this is...

Did you use a Microsoft product recently ? Let alone the moble crap they pathetically try to push with no succes, the actual MSN/MSIE/WinXXX is really containing the WORSE visions of what computing should really be.

I have tons of *hands on*, work stories proving, demonstrating this.

Maybe I'm a bit... Well no, I'm plain furious.  :evil:

pX

[xaccrocheur]

I dont see how you can make fun of the guy for saying that comment about playing a PDA game...

Hey this bit about the guy playing at a show with his son was a *joke* ! Come on !

What shocked me was not the fact that bill McEwen uses another platform, heck, I suppose that his secretary does not use final Writer neither ;-)

But I think I remember him (its complicated, I cannot quote, he said *a lot* of things) saying that Amiga DE would not be "just a game pack for Windows CE", (God forbid) but the ground for a new mobile Amiga-based platform.

I sure was not reading properly at that time.

It IS just windows software.

As for "strategic partnerships", I don't know nothing about this, too complicated for me, I have no advice to give him.
just sounds dangerous.

pX

[xaccrocheur]

(...) While I really think BB should have worded those annoncements
different (or not at all), (...)

I'm sorry, I missed this. To what words are you reffering here ? Can you post a link ?

"McEwen (Amiga) :

Amiga has a rich history in video and film work, and some of the other titles we have coming out in the next 90 days will allow user to manipulate video on their Windows Powered devices"

Well 2 weeks in AInc language means 2 years, so I don't think users of `Windows powered devices' should get too excited just yet

Good point, red melon

 :-P  :-D  :-P

[xaccrocheur]

Hello xaccrocheur,

What do you think about the following sentence in that article:

"....Amiga has over 3,000 developers creating content...."



Can anyone tell more about this part.

Hi Spid

Yep, I'm wondering, I'm a dev, working on an amiga project right now, and I never got a phone call

Well, when OS5 hits the street, no one will remember the software of now! (that's my peronal opinion).

Well I think takemehomegrandma (?! :-P !?) is quite right in saying "Shouldn't we wait to see when/if OS4 materializes before even *thinking* about OS5? "

I mean... I never though I could DOUBT so much :-o

pX