Mai Excited about Validation!

[Andre.Siegel]

For istance the glorified "Amiga Award 2002 for bplan GmbH" announcements. While in fact 1) Genesi was the main sponsor for this Award 2) Polls for ARC visitors show that the AmigaOS/AmigaOne solutions were still by far the most preferred solution in comparison. This was backed up by various people who asked aroundl, including Petra.

You are, of course, wrong on all accounts. The Amiga Award was initiated by Falke Media (publisher of German AmigaPlus magazine). They were also the main sponsor of the official "Amiga Award." What Genesi sponsored, was last year's "Special Amiga Award" which was given to the best software developer. Did MorphOS win? No, it was not even on the list of options.

As for any ARC polls, the winner of the Amiga Award was chosen by the readers of AmigaPlus, not visitors of the ARC show in Aachen. People could vote either by snail mail or the official Amiga Award website. So whatever was said by visitors of the show, it did not matter with regard to the Amiga Award. Moreover, please note that while many people might prefer an AmigaOne because it will be capable of running AmigaOS4.0 out of the box whenever this gets released, this does not mean these people think that the AmigaOne product is the better hardware solution. This should be fairly easy to understand, even for people with a certain lack of intelligence.

If you have any more complaints about the organizers of the AmigaAward being open to bribery, feel free to mail them directly. You can find various contact addresses at the AmigaPlus Website ...

Regarding the Amiga Award statistics, everyone can take a look here. There were 2200 voters from all around the globe.


Suffice it to say, this accusation was really poor.

André

[Andre.Siegel]

@ Mr. B


I wrote: "They were also the main sponsor of the official "Amiga Award."

So you ackowledge that Genesi was a main sponsor for this award. Thanks, point one confirmed.

"They" obviously referred to the previous sentence which said "the Amiga Award was initiated by Falke Media (publisher of German AmigaPlus magazine." I fail to see how anybody in his right mind could misinterpret my words in the same way as you just did. Enough said.

The general opinion did not change in your favour despite seeing and test driving your product, and so the fact that Genesi won this award was not that big of a deal

Again, while many people might prefer an AmigaOne because it will be capable of running AmigaOS4.0 out of the box whenever this gets released, this does not mean that these people think that the AmigaOne product would be the better hardware solution. Everyone should be able to understand this.

As people could not yet vote for the AmigaOne-XE, your main competitor within the Amiga market.

This is irrelevant. The Amiga Award was given to the company who produced the most innovative Amiga-related product in 2002. So, even if the AmigaOne-XE had been out for sale back in December, chances are high that bPlan would have won anyway. Many Amiga users know that MAI  is the driving force behind the Teron/AmigaOne boards and the actual producer of the hardware, whereas Eyetech are "just" distributors.


Your reasoning is flawed.
André

[Andre.Siegel]

@ Mr. B

So now you are implying that Genesi was NOT a main sponsor? Simply be clear, was Genesi a main contributer to the Amiga Award 2002 or not?

Genesi sponsored the "Amiga Award Extra" which was given to the best Amiga Shareware author. The "Amiga Award 2002" which was the main category, was not sponsored by anyone but Falke Media, publishers of AmigaPlus.

Yes, I am very happy such a competent and well respected company is backing the Amiga community. I see no reason why Mai could not win an Amiga Award 2003 within the Amiga hardware category.

I suppose you also see no reason why Microsoft could not win an Amiga Award in 2003 for indirectly financing the development of the 64BIT hardware-independant AmigaOS5 which was announced to be released at the end of this year.

[Andre.Siegel]

@ Mr. B

So you claim that 250 Euro or less is all of Genesi's contribution to the Amiga Award 2002?

Exactly.