Trevor just said (not a direct quote, but I am guessing he said something like this) "to hell with how much it is going to cost, we need a new, more powerful Amiga(One)".
I can't really understand how you can applaud something like this. To me it's just insane.
Think of a country like Ethiopia, suffering from drought, crop failure and famine. People are dying by starvation in thousands. They need something to eat to survive and develop as a people. If not, they will die.
Someone comes up with a plan to make cheap meatballs that would provide decent meals to the masses in the short to mid term (the Moana project) while you potentially could try to work something different out for the long term (probably a migration of the people to greener pastures, like x86 or ARM, where the people can survive and develop further).
But the Generals leading the country (Hyperion) decides that this is not a "worthy enough" solution for Ethiopia(TM), that Ethiopia(TM) is all about being different and better (in some weird, backwards way), that what's needed is a "special Ethiopian(TM) dish", and only this will save the Ethiopian people.
The people cheer, as they always do when the Generals have spoken (no matter what they say) at least the higher society AmigaWorld.net people, and in particular the Ethiopian Noble class at Amigans.net. Now the direction is set, the road is clear. Ehtiopia(TM) will rise once again and become a player on the global arena.
A couple of Ethiopian farmers, the Acube (those originally behind the "mass meatball solution"), develops a plan according to the Generals wishes. Instead of meatball (what's really "special" about meatballs anyway?) they decide to create a Gourmet Dish of Pork Chops (the Sam 440). The Generals cheer, the upper class society (AmigaWorld.net) cheer, the Nobles (Amigans.net) cheer even more. Finally the wait is over, finally Ethiopia(TM) has its special meal that will solve the famine and make the people grow back, both in volume and significance.
Some people however (quite a few actually), openly questions this strategy. They say "in times of famine, poverty and mass starvation, how on earth would the Ethiopians be helped by 'gourmet dishes' that only a few could afford?". But those people are aggressively fought by the Generals minions (the upper class society and nobles) on a broad scale. "Ethiopia has always been about the Gourmet way of eating" they say, but by aggressively using words like "Trolls" and "Negativity", often crying for the Secret Thought Police (moderators) to intervene; "How on earth could Ethiopia possibly rise to its former glory, when these trolls are allowed to spread negativity about our new Gourmet Dish?". And not seldom does the Secret Thought Police abide.
The problem for Ethiopia however, isn't "negativity". It's famine. What was needed was a nutritious dish with enough vitamins and proteins, that could be broadly accessible and easily obtainable. The "Gourmet Dish" that those Acube farmers provided, turned out to be pretty much on par with a carrot stew (the $129 Efika MX, actually even below that, because the Efika MX can actually do quite "meaty" things by clever integration of various on-chip "mini-dishes" that spices things up quite considerably, actually bringing it to a meatball level in many cases). But while the "Acube Gourmet Dish" in practice provides a plain carrot stew, it *costs* like a "Angus Beef Tenderloin" dish (Core-i7 gaming level computer), possibly more. This has the effect that it will neither provide enough nutrition for its consumers, nor will it have particularly many consumers in the first place. The famine continues, the people of Ethiopia continues to decrease in numbers.
After a while, the Acube farmers produces a new "Gourmet Dish", the "Pork Tenderloin" (Sam 460). This is a dish that, while it seems a bit more "luxurious" than the Pork Chops, it does have some rather strange oddities and quirks. Once again the debate about the Generals strategy arises, once again the Generals minions have to fight "negativity" and "trolls".
The "Pork Tenderloin" dish in most cases turns out to be slightly below the *older* of the meatball dishes out there (the Pegasos2), being "Gourmet" only in its price tag, that still puts it way out of reach for most people. The Ethiopian population continue to decrease.
Now one of the Generals himself (Ben Hermans) steps up to bring order to the famine situation. Since the General Strategy of course has been right all along, the problems could only be explained by the dishes not being luxurious enough for the Ethiopians taste! Together with the rich, upper class society member Trevor Dickinson, he comes up with the Über Gourmet dish "the special Beef Tenderloin". It is so special, that it actually has a "jewel" in the middle of the plate, made of glass, because "the first Ethiopian(TM) dishes was originally made with a custom jewel, Ethiopians simply loves the thought of a shiny custom jewel in the center of the dish, and a glass jewel will surely satisfy this need of shininess".
Once again the debate arose. Critics said "You can't make a Beef Tenderloin dish based on an old meatball recipe", and "there is no need for shiny jewels in the 21st century, it will only make things more expensive by making the dish a lot more complex, and it's not even really a jewel but a $20 piece of glass", and once again the Generals minions had to come out and fight the "trolls" spreading "negativity". They also seemed to have some kind of competition among themselves, inventing potential uses for the jewel, each idea seeming more narcotic inspired than the other, and almost all suggested a complete ignorance of what kind of jewel it actually was.
Now when it's released, it turns out to be a "Gourmet Dish" only in its price tag. It turns out to be slightly above the meatball dishes that has been around since half a decade ago (but being denied to the Ethiopian people by their Generals), while its price tag is equal to not one, not two, but three or even *four* "Angus Beef Tenderloin" (Core-i7 gaming level computer) dishes! And the jewel? Well, it just sits there in the middle of the plate, and nobody has no idea of how it will add to the taste or nutrition of the dish.
Will this make the Ethiopian population grow? Will it make Ethiopia(TM) more significant, and a player on the global arena? No of course not. The madness is obvious to everyone but the Generals, the Nobles, and the Upper Class Society members of Ethiopia. To everyone outside, both in Ethiopia and in the world as a whole, the madness behind the idea makes it a laughing stock. It can't even be called Ethiopia(TM), but is referred to as EthiopiaOne (or parasite marketing by the Generals using quotation marks: "Ethiopia").
The X1000 is madness, the Sam is madness, the whole mindset that OS4 "Amigans" has on expensive, custome made HW is madness, it's a shameful waste of resources and it will not bring the OS4 platform forward one single bit, rather the opposite.
