Amiga's Worst Move?

[dammy]

The worst possible move was having idiots run C= that didn't have a freaking clue or plan.  All they did was react to events.

Like any aircraft accident, there wasn't a single blunder, but a series of small blunders that acted like a domino effect that leads to a catastrophic accident.  C= should have had a premium customer service beyond a decent base customer service.  C= should have trusted their engineers and accept them as a full fledge member of management team.  C= failed to accept they needed a baseline nitch market (AV market), worked with AV companies in a unified developement push.  

C= failed to keep the Amiga current with x86 (486), they should have spent the money on porting AOS to x86 and setup and spun off a x86-AOS company with minimum cash drain plus turn a blind eye to piracy.  This is exactly what M$ for decades, whine about it and let piracy push M$ into ever office and home.  Let the tiny AOS/x86 company fail after maximum saturation and allow the clone OEM to license at a really cheap rate AOS.  Most of Amiga folks would never go to x86 back then so there is little worry about losing us to x86 sales.  

C= also failed to buy at discount rate, failed AOS software houses' IP.  Had C= started to spend minimum cash for the better titles, they could once again accessed cheap coding markets that were beginning in India.  Port the games and decent apps to x86 and offer it to the x86 OEMs for minimum money in addition to AOS allowing the OEM to resell it on CD as value added content.  Doing all the above for say a fifth of what M$ wanted would given C= a foothold in the markets across the board.

Dammy

[dammy]

Bare in mind that in '90 to '92 it wasn't obvious that the x86 would be a viable alternative to other chips around...

IIRC, Haynie stated about the time that of C='s death was the time the x86 was really picking up steam. I will point out that is when he decided against Zorro IV and was going to go with PCI.  C= guessed the the big market was indeed x86, they just botched it with the 486 speed increase issues.

Playing Monday Morning Quarterback for a minute, what C= shoud have done was started to panic early about having massive stocks of PCs sitting in the warehouses and losing value by the day.  Had they paniced early and really hard, they may have thought that the only way to pass off 486s as viable and somewhat expensive boxes was to:

1. Port AOS to it.
2. Put Amiga gfx chipset onto a PCI card and bundle with #1.
3. Call it Amiga 5000 and roll on.

Dammy

[dammy]

What is Amiga's worst move today?

Amiga Inc's manage has failed to commit seppuku, to atone for their botched management actions and decisions.

What really is sad is that I can say with a stright face, I pine for the days of Irving Gould and Mehdi Ali.  The Billed&Fleeced Show has devolved into something so pathetic, they make Gould and Ali look competent and professional.


Dammy

[dammy]

You speak as if Commodore was a competant company!!! Don't forget that none of the sections communicated, they were all in competition for budgets... I think dave pointed out that no one in the Amiga teams even knew of the CDTV until it was ready for market... And of the Teams which were working on Amiga systems, even they didn't know what each other was doing. It was just like Apple before they got Jobs back in, All the 80's computer companies died in the 90's... Only apple survived because Jobs is an arrogant MoFo. I doubt if the Amiga teams knew much of the Commodore IBM-PC and vice versa...

Monday morning quarter backing, we some really horrific management skills of C=.  What I am saying, atleast Gould and Ali (more Gould though) actually made millions of dollars before they blew it entirely.  If Billed&Fleeced made millions by selling millions of units then lost it all, it would be on thing.  They never got to that phase, they just borrowed and blew it all with nothing of significance to show for it.  That is what I am talking about.  

Dammy

[dammy]

You speak as if Commodore was a competant company!!! Don't forget that none of the sections communicated, they were all in competition for budgets... I think dave pointed out that no one in the Amiga teams even knew of the CDTV until it was ready for market... And of the Teams which were working on Amiga systems, even they didn't know what each other was doing. It was just like Apple before they got Jobs back in, All the 80's computer companies died in the 90's... Only apple survived because Jobs is an arrogant MoFo. I doubt if the Amiga teams knew much of the Commodore IBM-PC and vice versa...

Apple had what, 8 Billion in the bank.  That's a crap load of liquid capital just sitting there, that's more then enough to keep creditors happy even with crap sales for years.

As for your accurate description of C='s stupidity, now compare that to Billed&Fleeced Show.  Which one had a real company they rain aground and which one was a .com scheme they suckered folks into?  Now you see why I can honestly say, I rather have C='s management since they built a company on sales, and then lost it because of their incompetence vs .com scheme?

Dammy