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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« on: March 11, 2012, 06:57:55 PM »
@TMHG

what on earth is with your obsession with OS4? i honestly think some MOS users talk more about OS4 than they do about their own platform on this site. can't you discuss the numbers in your own community without talking a bunch of smack about everybody else?

you and folks like you are a big reason morphOS turns me off. seriously. listen to amigadave; he knows what's talking about.

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2012, 08:04:41 PM »
Quote from: takemehomegrandma;683274
What do you mean?

Someone bumps up a one year old thread, that was about *MorphOS* user numbers (we *are* allowed to discuss MorphOS user numbers, right, or is that "negativity" in some weird OS4-way?), then HenryCase tries to make a case on how it's very unlikely that MorphOS can have more users than OS4 (mostly based on his personal Amigaworld.net/MorphZone.org experience as it turned out), and I pointed out how it very much *can* be so, based on recent statistics, while repeatedly stating that it in no way could be considered as facts.
of course you're welcome to discuss the number of people using morphOS, by all means. and if you want to compare against some measure of people using AROS or OS4 or windows or whatever, knock yourself out. i just don't get why you feel it necessary to post insults or snarky comments about OS4 in the process. and you do that constantly. look at morphzone -- you can't help yourself talking about the other camp.

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You obviously gets pissed off by whoever claims that MorphOS *could* have more users, but not by anyone claiming *OS4* could have more users. I'm not the one claiming that user numbers matters the slightest anyway, they are much too low all over anyway, and I don't care, I'm not the one with an obsession here. But it's interesting to note that if someone claiming that there could be measurable signs that MorphOS might actually be the more popular of the two, they have "an OS4 obsession", but when someone claims the opposite, it's just fine and dandy. And I'll tell you what, if you base your choice of Amiga OS upon these kind of things instead of their actual technical merits and stuff like that, then it's really *your* problem.
dude, i don't care if morphOS users are ten times the number of OS4 users. i couldn't possibly care less. the point of my post was that your arguments about morphOS nearly always involved putting down OS4. you post in OS4 threads that have nothing to do with morphOS just to talk smack. i would wager that you have posted more often in OS4-related threads on this site than morphOS-related threads, at least in the past couple of years.

and i'll tell you what, your behavior is a turn off for people. a big turn off. because this is a hobby, and part of that is being part of a community. and the obsession a few MOS users have with OS4 is something i would never want to be associated with.

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2012, 11:02:47 PM »
Quote from: takemehomegrandma;683291
So put your head in the sand and sing the X1000 song, while we extrapolate the trends (both MorphOS's and OS4's) another 6 months. We don't want to discuss the problems, right? Ouch, that "negativity", no let's stay in the happy land, where OS4 has a great future thanks to the X1000 and Sam routes, PPC all the way...!
i rest my case.

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #3 on: March 13, 2012, 01:38:07 PM »
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There *are* a couple of factual comparisons in existence though. A very thorough performance comparison was made a few years ago (in that french web mag I currently can't remember the name on). MorphOS won, hands down, and as a result we saw countless of thread and unpleasant posts from people condemning the effort per se. Comparing HW performance, HW availability, HW price and HW bang/buck ratio is also a no brainer, there is no need to put these facts side by side in a table, everyone simply knows these facts anyway. A brief feature list comparison (based on publicly available information) could easily be put together (but is it really needed? Doesn't everyone already knows this?), it would take more time to create a comparison table with more in-depth listings. But as soon as you do, there comes these "why all this negativity" people creeping again...
just for reference i think you're referring to the 09/2009 comparison in obligement.  the article is here for those interested.  don't know if it is still valid given the progress in both MOS and OS4 (and the software used) over the past 2.5 years, but it certainly backs up TMHG's performance claims -- well, at least in the timeframe when it was done.

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