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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #104 on: March 11, 2012, 11:02:47 PM »
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So put your head in the sand and sing the X1000 song, while we extrapolate the trends (both MorphOS's and OS4's) another 6 months. We don't want to discuss the problems, right? Ouch, that "negativity", no let's stay in the happy land, where OS4 has a great future thanks to the X1000 and Sam routes, PPC all the way...!
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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #105 on: March 11, 2012, 11:33:10 PM »
1100 Serials Sold.  Is that Binary(12) or Decimal?  LOL Naughty me.

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #106 on: March 12, 2012, 12:14:17 AM »
Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the number of registered MorphOS users exceeded the amount of Windows users a long time ago. Is this not correct?
 

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #107 on: March 12, 2012, 12:33:17 AM »
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the number of registered MorphOS users exceeded the amount of Windows users a long time ago. Is this not correct?


That still isn't funny the second time around (posted from a MorphOS based system).
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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #108 on: March 12, 2012, 12:52:23 AM »
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No, I don't think ~700 users is great in any way, nowhere did I say that.
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This would give around 700 MorphOS users, which is a pretty decent number actually!
Doesn't matter anyway


Again (pointing at your own quotes) I said that 700 is a pretty *decent* number, and I think it is, given the fact that it descends from a 25 year old platform that people forgot about one and a half decade ago, given that it's tied to PPC in a world where no new viable desktop motherboards has been produced since 2007, and given that it's being developed on a hobby basis, obviously with no commercial ambition (yes, I mean that despite the fact that they are charging money for the licenses, I mean that see no ambition to build a commercial context, a commercial purpose, a product). And it's an OK number for a hobby OS, no-one can expect miracles from these conditions, and it's probably a very good share of the total remaining people in this community who actually *uses* Amiga, and not only spending time in the social clubs *talking* about it.

"Doing Great" would have had a couple of trailing zeros to that 700 figure...

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #109 on: March 12, 2012, 01:30:59 AM »
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i rest my case.


Look, I understand that some things are taboo, that you "can't" talk about it, at least not without being crucified. Like OS4's obvious quality problems and shortcomings. Like the insanity of the OS4 HW route, and the platform-death it leads to. Like the amount of OS4 users, that probably is a result of the first two. To name a few things, there are more. I understand that.

But you see, talking about it isn't the actual problem. The actual problem is OS4's obvious quality problems and shortcomings, the insanity of the OS4 HW route, and the platform-death it leads to.

So I will continue the talk. Maybe some day, someone will listen, maybe something will change if problems are discussed. Probably not, since a lot of people seems to be of the opinion that the problem is actually highlighting the problems. "Negativity" is baad, mmmkay? Not talking about the problems would be "positivism", and that's goood, mmmkay?

You obviously are one of the people who can't stand this, but I don't really care about what you think of me. I have understood that you don't like me "and people like me" as you put it. You must also understand that a lot of people doesn't like when "ssolie" takes a field-trip to morphzone.org on a crusade against MorphOS charging money for their work (almost trying to bring the impression of some kind of "robbery"/not delivering the promised features, lecturing the MorphOS team on what they should do with the money, etc), a lot of people doesn't like when OS4 users groups MorphOS together with Linux and whatever alien OS's and discards it as being totally irrelevant to the Amiga community (hey, it's not MorphOS that's introducing .so objects and other POSIX crap into the OS, and Hyperion games runs fine on MorphOS), or when the Friedens has their regular primadonna-rage-tantrums as soon as they get a legit question about their views on Open Source.

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #110 on: March 12, 2012, 01:31:44 AM »
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1100 Serials Sold.


That was a year ago, you'd have to add 200 registrations since then...

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #111 on: March 12, 2012, 01:42:04 AM »
Hi,

Isn't that chart upside down.

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #112 on: March 12, 2012, 01:44:37 AM »
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Correct me if I'm wrong but I thought the number of registered MorphOS users exceeded the amount of Windows users a long time ago. Is this not correct?


Hi,

@Pyromania,

Ha, ha, ha, huh?

You make um big joke, the number of registered MorphOS users, is about half the population of Podunk Idaho. (3)

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #113 on: March 12, 2012, 02:13:36 AM »
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Hi,

@Pyromania,

Ha, ha, ha, huh?

You make um big joke, the number of registered MorphOS users, is about half the population of Podunk Idaho. (3)

smerf


Unless each of those three has over 400 registration keys apiece, that seems unlikely.

Current registration keys? Over 1344. Many paying more then the current price of 111 euros.
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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #114 on: March 12, 2012, 04:55:49 AM »
Morphos rules!!!

AOS4.x sucks!!!

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #115 on: March 12, 2012, 05:10:31 AM »
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Morphos rules!!!

AOS4.x sucks!!!

;)

That's relative.
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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #116 on: March 12, 2012, 05:26:18 AM »
My A1200 rules.
 

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #117 on: March 12, 2012, 05:32:41 AM »
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My A1200 rules.

You've got a better monitor then mine. I guess your 1200 does rule.
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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #118 on: March 12, 2012, 05:58:34 AM »
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My A1200 rules.


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You've got a better monitor then mine. I guess your 1200 does rule.


seen it. It does rule :pint:
 

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Re: Amount of MorphOS copies sold
« Reply #119 from previous page: March 12, 2012, 06:15:14 AM »
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It's also irrelevant because of the sliding definition of "users". I downloaded AmiKit a few weeks ago. I have booted it up a couple of times, and I even provided some bug reports that led to a new release. I still have it on my computer. Am I a user?

I haven't booted up my Pegasos 2 for three years, but I have it here with MorphOS installed. Am I a Pegasos 2 user? And similar - people having AmigaOne XE's collecting dust besides their PC's, not having used it forever, but actively participating in OS4 discussions on Amigaworld.net using Google Chrome on the Windows 7 box, are they OS4 users?


In real world companies dont count how many users there are but how many copies they have sold. So from the MorphOS team POV only interesting graph should be number of MorphOS licenses sold. From Hyperion Entertainment POV only interesting graph should be number of OS4 licenses they have sold.

To AROS developers number of downloads is similarly only interesting figure. It is not comparable to number of licences but should give some idea is interest growing or declining.
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