Way to sell an Amiga

[runequester]

@Franko

It's because in 16 years a lot of advance have taken place that don't require a person to know how a computer works.  Everything just works, plug it in, turn it on, and away you ago.  The Amiga world doesn't work that way, it's more plug it in, turn it on, guru, try to fix it, surf the net for an answer, fix it, guru, repeat process.  Welcome to the '80s...

Also, the Amiga is back in the '80s in terms of user friendliness, on a Mac or a PC you don't have to understand how something works to use it, in the Amiga world you have to....

For most basic tasks on the amiga, you click on an icon and stuff happens.
Seems pretty similar to anything else, and certainly no worse than dos/windows at the time.

But of course, yes, if you are comparing a (at best) 1992 operating system with the most recent versions of linux, osx or windows its gonna be lacking accessability.

[runequester]

Plus on Amiga you have a self selected audience that has lived for 16 years with no support and precious little before that.  It's not that Amiga that encourages tinkering so much as the audience has survived by tinkering.  

But I think more so than that the audience and the equipment are sort of matched to one another.  If it were possible to fully modernise an Amiga, the community would turn up it's collective noses and say it was too Mac-like.

Heck, I remember reading articles comparing the amiga to the mac in the 80s

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