What Killed the Amiga userbase (the various "AIncs") and May Kill it Again!!

[mikeymike]

Personally I hope DE will disappear in a cloud of vapour :-) Why on earth would anyone want it anyway .  Java has been there, MS smartphone will hopefully go the way of the dodo...

[mikeymike]

@ Paul_Gadd

Why is it that anyone that says anything negative about the Amiga gets asked by you and others "Why are you here?"

No, they don't.  I have negative and positive opinions about Amiga and the current situation, but I don't keep saying the same thing, or doom-and-glooming the situation all the time.  If you don't have anything useful/interesting to say, don't say anything at all.  Your first comment on this thread was totally doom-and-glooming, and you seem to be wondering why people don't take kindly to it.

[mikeymike]

@ Jose
Java has shown with its track record that businesses/people aren't particularly interested in a cross-platform 'portable' programming language.

What is AmigaDE's "good way of targetting the mass market"?  Through mobile phones?

I think AmigaOS has a much better chance of survival and a better chance of a positive effect on the computer industry.  If AOS was successful, Mac and Amiga users would be better off because hardware prices would come down, and cross-platform competition would heat up again from the bare simmer it has been turned down to.  

Also, I want a change from Win2k and MS's "nanny OS" idea. :-)

[mikeymike]

@ Paul_Gadd

That doom and gloom as you put it is what the Amiga looks like in the real world

Do you not think everyone knows it's been in a bad situation that it has yet to completely get out of?  Do you think it's your job to remind everyone of what you think are the facts at every opportunity you get?

As i have said many of times i would like to see the Amiga comeback big style but the truth is it aint going to happen anytime soon,

That is YOUR OPINION, not fact.  Again, your opinion is not something everyone needs to be reminded of at every opportunity, so GIVE IT A REST!

The early Amiga companies have took a top notch system and permanently damaged it,

"Permanently damaged", so you've obviously seen into the future to be able to tell us that.

As for the A1 and AOS4, i must be the only person on herewho looks at software before a OS, without your nomal everyday software their is no point spending loads on a platform, i like software support not a fancy new OS.

What makes you think that?  Obviously you're cleverer than everyone else in here that you're the only one to realise that an operating system needs software to be of any use to anyone?  Maybe you need to preach some more!  Maybe everyone will start agreeing with you if you say the same thing, over and over again?

[mikeymike]

@ Paul_Gadd

Btw, you seriously need to use the full stop key a little more often :-)