alexh wrote:
persia wrote:
I'll repeat that THERE WAS NO WINNING STRATEGY. There is no winning strategy today to bring Amiga back. There is no way Amiga could catch up with Apple or MS, and catching up isn't good enough to generate customer, you have to really excel. Where is Amiga going to do that?
Nah there were lots of winning strategies.
You think no company has come from nothing in the time Amiga Inc. was dying?
If they had gone for the ULP (Ultra low power) laptop, along the lines of the One-Laptop-per-child kinda thing, they would have been in very good standing right now. Every man and his dog is making a new one. Elonex, OLPX, Intel, Asus etc. etc.
Think about some of the great ideas that came out during that period any of which could have saved Amiga: MP3, Wireless, tablet PC, multi-touch screens, haptics (force feedback) etc.
The problem is Amiga Inc. just didnt have the cash to do hardware and they were money grabbing, penny pinching b-stards.
But they rejected those that did have the cash for hardware, and not only did that but attacked them both publically and privately. Anyone else here got their Peake-a-gram? They stated, repeatedly and with religious zealotry, "Hardware is irrelevent" and "hardware doesn't matter". Well, guess what, without hardware, it doesn't matter how good your software is, you can't run it! People don't buy OS's for the most part, they definately don't buy runtime JIT VCPU solutions with a VOS on top of it. They buy machines. But when offered a design for a ULP laptop, an MP3 player, a tablet PC, or a cell phone, they scoffed and turned their noses up on it, seeing the prize as being in Disney-designed 3D renderings that cost a pretty penny.
