Amiga Inc - An open letter to the Amiga community

[Plaz]

Poor retort with lots of whinning. It's no mystery why they're in the situation they're in when letters like this earn my pity, not respect.

No solutions, no reconciliation, no vision, but lots of talk about nice ideas. Been seeing that since when... 2000? Now back to minimig and Aros I suppose.

BTW, more thoughts at aw.org if anyone cares...
http://amigaworld.net/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3975&order=0#53468

Plaz

[Nautilus]

I am still really waiting for OS4 or OS5, whatever, but I am curious to know what is so special in AmigaOS4 to take years to be ready...

Even the good old MSX has a new and cool OS!
http://www.symbos.de/

[kd7ota]

Ubuntu Linux 7.10 will be out this month....

That OS rocks, and probably as close to an Amiga i will ever get.  :-D

[AmiJake]

Well I am new here, but I've been following this whole episode for a long time.

Point is I think this letter is trying to say "A-Inc" has Huge Plans for OS4 and has not abandoned the loyal users.

But without the critical co-operation from a certain "3rd party" .... Nothing will happen.... mening we the users just rot with blame game.


Anyways ..... just my views on this   :crazy:

[LoadWB]

Is there any chance what so ever that the saber-rattling and finger-pointing can just plain stop?!  WTF, people?

In this tangled mess that is Amiga, I apparently missed the whole KMOS thing.  I thought this was the same Amiga, Inc. for which I renewed their expired domain in 2001.

How long has it been since the promise of OS4?  How long have we been told "just a few more months"?  How many times have we been told "there's hardware running a modern Amiga OS, I have it, and it's great, and you'll love it, too... as soon as we release it."

DAMMIT.  Anymore, I don't give a rat's butt whisker who's at fault.  Just stop playing with me.  This is worse than a frigid prom date.

The secrets, the lies, the subterfuge, the half-truths and quarter-lies, SHOW US SOMETHING FOR $_DEITY's SAKE, something real.  All of this is just words.  Words we've heard before, words we'll hear again.  How does a company stay running on words?

::shouts loud curse word and hits [Post Comment]::

[Plaz]

DAMMIT. Anymore, I don't give a rat's butt whisker who's at fault. Just stop playing with me. This is worse than a frigid prom date.

Time to turn over the IP to some one who knows how to care for it. Com'mon LoadWB, I'll by the next round of punch though I can't help ya with the prom problem. :-)

Plaz

[Atheist]

Plaz wrote:

Time to turn over the IP to some one who knows how to care for it.

Hi Plaz,

I most certainly agree!!!!

BUT, court or NO court battle, there is NO reason that Amiga Inc. (Del.) can't sell this mythical ACK G5 HW they claim to have.... Hyperion can provide the OS, we (all of us here and on AW.Net and Amigans.net) know all the ins and outs about it, not like we're going to get confused about just what it is we're buying, and create an actual market/user community out here!

Amiga Inc. can STILL make money off of AOS4.x, by just adding a considerable amount to the HW (whatever it is they think they're losing). We're pretty desperate, and it's not like we didn't pay large amounts for computer HW in the past anyhow.


No more talk, DO SOMETHING Amiga Inc.!

[jdiffend]

Who on earth is still funding these people?
With these results I'm surprised the doors are still open.

[McVenco]

:popcorn:

[Piru]

[sundown]

Amiga Roundtable's Open Letter to the Amiga Community

[amigakid]

Nice to finally get a response from Amiga.  My thing is that maybe its too late for a lot of people.  I remember a lot of promises in the past number of years and last i looked in my computer room the newest editions to my Amiga family are from Ebay.  I can't say i'm believing what i was reading, who knows I really hope that my skeptism is proven wrong and I can buy a shiny new Miggy with OS4 (by new  mean new hardware not a powered up A4000 with OS4).  I really hope that they come out onto millions of devices, manufacture and sell millions of new Amiga Computers and kick butt, but at this point I just can't really believe them.  We had letters like this before with promise of new hardware.  Remember ACK was supposed to make new ones and the deadline came and went without ONE word from anyone there or Amiga.  Hmmnnn I'm just gonna enjoy my A4000, A1200 and A1000 until I can find an A3000 to add to the collection.  Cheers and who knows maybe our future will shine.

[LoadWB]

@Piru

Time to get "Office Space" on some arses. :-)

But, yeah, I'm pretty much resigned to enjoying my Amiga systems while they're still alive.  Once they die, I'll be living la vida Amiga in emulation.

[Robert17]

If it's true and there is hardware lined up, let's all wish a swift end to this lawsuit and just get on with it.

Robert

[iMacMiga]

This is the computer business, and it's 2007, Mr McEwan. Talk is cheap, words are irrelevant, products matter. Your company has continually talked itself and it's 'third parties' up, and no products are forthcoming, ergo you're doing something wrong. You don't see Steve Jobs (love him or hate him) talking up vapourware for years and years then telling us 'it'll be out as soon as some hardware comes along' then telling us 'the hardware will be along as soon as we reach an agreement with our developers.' Apple simply say 'we're doing this' and it happens, and they show us exactly how along the way. One good example of how this business is supposed to work. I hope you are taking notes. I work on the same principles and that's worked form me too...

We gave you time, for a while it looked semi-promising, so we gave you some more, nothing more happened, and some even gave you more than that (i.e. too much). You still have singularly failed to produce the product(s). You still continue to talk. I for one am sick of listening. The boy who cried fire is very close to getting burned, and here at least went up in flames a long time ago... :madashell:

[gregthecanuck]

Amiga Inc. Please do one thing right.

Either focus on delivering OS4.
OR focus on delivering "AA2".

You cannot do both. You do not have enough staff or experience to deliver two products.

Do one product. Do one "insanely great" product. Gain some credibility. Then move on. FOCUS. EXECUTE. DELIVER.