Waccoon wrote:
AmigaOne is a cash-in on a very dated trend. PSOne is obsolete. MediaOne is gone. You're either a leader or a follower.
PalmOne!
They should call it something new every time they redesign the mainboard. I still cringe whenever I hear people try to describe the PowerMac G3 towers, and they have to call them either "Beige" or "Blue and White". Sure, let's have a whole lineup of computers, over a couple years, all called the same thing. I feel the same way about AmigaOne and AmigaOne XE.
Thing is, they're still basically the same thing under the hood. The XE just adds the MegArray socket, and the 'badge letters' let you tell them apart.
Apple, in turn, did keep calling every single tower the "Power Mac" without any proper designation.
I get the impression Eyetech wants to run the 'brand' ("AmigaOne," vs. "Amiga") to promote their position as the original Amiga licensee. Whether anyone else *will* ever become a licensee -- and if they did, would want to call *their* product 'AmigaOne' when they can pick something else and differentiate from Eyetech -- seems pretty far off, these days.
There's certainly some room to stretch the brand: "AmigaOne G5," and from there, "AmigaOne G5-SE," "AmigaOne G5-XE," maybe "AmigaOne G5-ME" for a uATX board... Doesn't sound too awful. Eventually, of course, even Honda has to sell something other than a Civic.
I also think the whole OS should have been renamed to Workbench. AmigaOS just sounds so... difficult.
Alone, 'Workbench' doesn't have much ring to it. "Amiga Workbench 4.0" sounds better -- along the lines of Apple's "System" marketing -- but given the state of the market, having a box labeled "OS" on the shelf makes it a little more obvious that there *is* an OS. Note that Apple's done the exact same thing with that tenth release of theirs...
