"Further more, do you think there are more people buying the beast, if a search engine will present Cyrus base System when you enter Amiga 5000?" Hint: The only ones that will be interested to even google "Amiga 5000" in 2013 would be the hard core Amiga guys in a certain microcosm.
"Absolutely yes." Well, if you want search hits by using "clever" name associations you should call it "Amigaone iPhone 5s" or "Amigaone Facebook" for even more hits! :razz:
"Could this be confusing? Is this inconsistent? Yeah" OK, so the OS4 team lead *actually agrees* on the confusion and inconsistency? Interesting!
"but nobody cares." Nobody?
"The only people who do care are the hard core Amiga guys." And that's "nobody" in OS4 team leads eyes? Remember when *you guys* were "hard core Amiga guys"? You came from this background as well, didn't you?
"The hard core Amiga guys have made up their minds already so there is no point in pandering to them." So if you can't take the hard core Amiga guy's dollars, then their views doesn't matter and they should actively be ignored?
"We need to think outside this microcosm." Yes, because it's not the "hard core Amiga guys" that is the *only* potential buyers of $3,000+ computer systems of 2005 level performance with an OS that can't really be used for anything serious by 2013 standards, not even browsing the web in a decent manner, with missing or semi-functional drivers, for the joy of having a boing ball on the "custom case". No, it's not them, it's everyone else! And it will happen as soon as they can google "Amigaone A5000", this "A" is the key to everything!
"After reading "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" recently I'm quite sure Jack Tramiel wouldn't think twice about using the A5000 label because his focus was always on selling more units which is the primary objective here as well." Yeah, like he would ever go anywhere near the nemo/cyrus/whatever. Especially if he as you say (and the OS4 team lead seem to know) was only interested in selling more products. The X1000 is an impossible product; had Jack Tramiel been around and heard of a plan to create a computer with performance that's *eight years* behind the current market, then it would never have even entered the design phase, the idea would have been put in the trash as soon as it would have been pronounced, and the one coming up with the idea would probably be sent to a doctor for a brain examination.
Nice touch by the OS4 team lead there BTW, connecting Jack Tramiel to all this to create a subliminal image that they are "in a team" with him. "Do what Jack Tramiel would have done, vote for "A5000" because then we will sell more units outside this microcosm to non-hardcore Amiga guys"! Hey, I know! They should create a website where they list the names of all the old Amiga legends, and in the same list they should write their own names as well! Carl Sassenrath, David Haynie, Steven Solie, Steffen Häuser, etc! On the same page, in the same list! What? They already did that on
amigaos.net? Good, very justified, because surely Dave Haynie would really have loved their HW path, and Carl Sassenrath would really have loved what they did to the OS. And maybe they will sell more units outside the "microcosm", who knows? I mean, it's all about search engines and association with well known stuff ("Dave Haynie", "Amiga A5000", etc, maybe they can throw in some "AAA" somewhere as well?), and not about real, viable, marketable products, right?
