Could I possibly be any worse than the FIVE companies that have owned the Amiga brand over the last TWELVE years? Anyone who thinks the market is healthy
its no a matter of being worse, than being good enough. nobody claimed the amigamarket is healthy, actually its been completly nonexistant for many years already.
I'm no major player and never have been, but I have been in the game. In this market there is NO major players and there is NO serious market.
Since you issued the challenge, what have YOU done that trumps MY right to have an opinion besides looking out your basement window?
and what challenge are you talking about? why is this always about hostility, dont you get the point at all? its not about your personal feelings, letdowns and disapointements. its about oppotunities from where we stand today, and they arnt significantly worse just because of a few amigausers feels trampled on and have to voice it.
i dont belittle your personal opinion or right therefor. but opposed to you i dont take the view of someone who got cheated. i dont feel the need to slam other users on their head because i myself feel miserable, but rather i try to show you the perspective that a potential investor could have.
It's called reality, take a deep breath. How big do you really think this community is? How many of those people do you really think would pony up to actually buy a product if produced? The total "community" worldwide is in the (very) low thousands.
i clearly stated the amiga community isnt worth a dime to anyone. its not existant and highly irrelevant to anyone interested in amiga as a brand or amigaos as an operatingsystem. now, thats reality for you and the standpoint i took from my first post.
what is important though, is the massive amounts people who nods their head when they hear the name.
Prove to me otherwise? 2006 is almost over and what is left of this very, very small community is bleeding away a few users a day. What product will come out in 2007 to reinvigorate the market? 2008? 2009? 2010? Hard facts please, not over exuberant optimism, not religious speak.
you make up something i never stated, then wants me to prove it for you? it doesnt matter what products comes out, but what the options are and what value potential interested parties can see. then take it from there and do anything, or nothing, as you please.
personally im not optimistic about the future. i dont hold much hope for the operatingsystem of my dreams, but im no more blind than i know how buisness works and that there is a lot of possibilities.
Your head is in the 90's and that's no insult the only one here throwing insults is yourself. There are no "millions" of people, they've all moved on. They owned a product and when that product didn't fill their needs they moved on. None of these people will buy a substandard product for 10-100X price of a mainstream product
please point me to my insulting paragraphs since that would help me improve my forum posts in the future.
exactly, there are millions of people who have moved on. those are preciesly the potiential ones as well as newcommers. the rest is irrelevant.
you are the one expecting a substandard product. im talking a scope thats in a realistic league for any decent sized company that wants to make a profit. not a couple tousand hobbyiests who wont make a difference anyway.
Actually I disagree, your head is in the 80's, not the 90's. In the 80's a single person or 2 could cobble together something killer and make a mint
and why exactly is that? i seem to be the one who takes a step back and looks at the real possibilities from where we stand. where did i talk a two man operation?
Nowadays it takes huge corporations with tons of researcgh, funding and quality control. It also takes buttloads of major partnerships, political connections and such. No one with even the slightest interest in the Amiga comes near to these requirements.
and there are plenty of those giant cooperations who could be potential partners or licensees of something amiga related.
you are badly mistaken when you figure noone has an interest, but im sure its way easier to sit and moan and complain that the world is unfair than actually go look at the world and poke it for a response.
You can have your head in the clouds all you want, it won't change anything. People like you come and go. Come in raving how negative everyone is and how great everything will be shortly, and in a few months to a year when it doesn't pan out they quitely disapear without a word.
do i really have my head in the clouds? its not really that complicated. put up a list of amigaos's strengths compared to windows/linux/whatever and then list the companies that could have an interest, no matter how odd or unexpected, and you will get a substantial list.
im pretty confident that you havnt been on the amiga ride any longer than i have, so why you figure that people like me 'come and go' really is bogus. the only difference between us in that regard is our standpoint and view upon the situration. you seem far to concerned with something as irrelevant as the fact that someone played fool on you personally with 10 years of let downs.
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