Why AmigaOS 4.0 is going to be successful…

[that_punk_guy]

What makes you think users deterred by Mac OSX's incompatibility with their existing Windows software be any more likely to move to AmigaOS?

It's really cool that you feel that positive about the future of the Amiga and I don't want to feel like I'm coming down on anyone for it. But, really... Apple is a big company with a large advertising budget and still most home computers are Windows machines. Who's got the multi-million dollar marketing budget for AmigaOS/MOS/AROS? Amiga Inc?  :lol:

[that_punk_guy]

mnoldoj_rowq wrote:
Amiga has a NAME among some fans who happened to own computers longer than since 1995.

Interesting point. Commodore went down just before web access became available to the masses, and computing started to become something everybody and their grandmother did. I wonder how many people think PCs were invented in 1994. It was all internet this and multimedia CD-ROM that, and the machine you bought simply had to be an IBM PC compatible, 'cause the magazines said so. It was the first thing you asked the dealer, even though you didn't know what on Earth it meant.

Amidst all that hype, it's no wonder that traditional home computers like the Amiga got buried, out of th sight of the public. It's generally said that we'd have been screwed without the web pages and forums to help each other out and stay informed, but did the internet really save the Amiga, or did it kill it off once and for all?

[that_punk_guy]

There was me, thinking I'd just made an incredibly insightful and thought-provoking post.  :-D

[that_punk_guy]

CU_AMiGA wrote:
Out of all operating systems, Amiga OS 4 is clearly the better mint. IMHO

But it won't be sucessful in bringing down M$ and taking ovr the world, etc. That's the point.

[that_punk_guy]

Phew!

I thought someone had bumped this thread up to troll. :-)

[that_punk_guy]

Maybe your HD was DOA. Did you check it in other machines?