Mike,
seems like a fair stance, but let me try and explain his opinion in a somewhat less troll-like fashion.
To you, me and the 100s of other people still passionately following the Amiga and assosciated news sites, many more things are obvious because of intimate knowledge.
To someone returning to their 'old haunts' after years of absence, it's a mess! To qualify that, I'm going to point fingers at everybody ;-)
In the absence of clear direction and leadership, the baton has been taken up by the remaining user community (the developers of both 'Amiga like' alternatives do so because of the legacy of their time with the OS and the challenge of pushing it forward...surely not for large amounts of cash.)
Because of this, the companies in charge are lazy (some more so than others) and are following the trend - letting the users market their products for them. A degree of this exists with all products but the balance is shifted too far in the 'Amiga like' 'markets'
It's unacceptable (in my opinion) for Hyperion to say "When it's done..." *unless* we are in 'under the radar' mode until OS4 is ready for true commercial release?
What is the damned target market?
If it's current user base then all the sales that are going to happen probably already did beyond a few of the 'wait and see' merchants. (In fact a lot of sales were lost due to missed deadlines and scarce availability of hardware!)
If it's the ex-user base then companies better get off their backsides and start updating websites, providing real and up to date information on the product and stop relying on (polluted) user forums to do the work.
I don't consider 'new users' a viable alternative because neither MorphOS nor OS4 is viable at this point in time nor is the hardware cost acceptable at an entry point level when considering price:features/function ratio.
Over and out...
Steve
PS Credit to Michael Salcedo of the SACC user group for setting me up for this rant ;-)
