what the hell is an amiga one?

[Piru]

@jorkany

That's how I saw it, too: Amateurs ripping people off. Just the fact that there was no working guarantee program is just inexcusable (at some point the higher price of the hardware was justified with extensive "quality assurance" testing and guarantee program... yeah sure).

At the same time as this silly "amiga"one debacle was going on there was some real, working PPC product available.

Oh, and lets not forget that Amiga Inc and Hyperion are now engaged in bitter legal fight over ownership of OS4. The fight has gone on for aeons and there's no end in sight...

[Piru]

@spirantho

The reality is simply that Eyetech needed a PPC board, and MAI were the only ones making one cheap enough

And the board by competition didn't have the flaws, was better built, and cheaper.

By this time, however, A1s had been made without the sound chip as it was deemed useless.

No, actually the sound chip was dropped because the programmers didn't know how to initialize it properly and they thought the chip or related parts of the board didn't work properly. The sound chip was always ok.

That debacle alone speaks volumes. Never let amateurs run a HW project.

[Piru]

If MS can't foresee such problems how the heck can MAI or Eyetech afford to

Actually any serious HW business must account for such things. It's quite possible that some flaw is found and that you must replace quite a bit of equipment. Intel and m$ did. It wasn't cheap, but it didn't ruin their business because they had planned for such an event.

Obviously it's much harder to deal with these issues when you have a single product, but nevertheless you should. If you can't, you shouldn't be doing the business in the first place.

[Piru]

Hardware : Guru Meditation Offers AmigaOne XE Repairs

That sums it all up pretty well.

Now back to beer.