| From: | Franklin Cheney |
| Date: | 2 Apr 2001 at 09:33:20 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcements - any questions? |
Hello Mikey
On 02-Apr-01, you wrote
> is good for the existing Amiga
> community, but totally hopeless in terms of "recruiting" new users to
> the platform.
Techies will see Amiga+G4+Matrox in the same sentance and
volunteer. No recruiters necessary. I bought the Northwest Amiga Journal
yesterday at a large bookstore, and the salesman peppered me
with inteligent questions about Amigas for 10 minutes, irritating his
co-workers, who had to take his customers while I, 8') recruited. 8')
> I cannot see any day with the current annnouncements where Amiga will
> become a spoken word in the high streets and in rooms across the world
> once more. Let alone being able to purchase stuff in your high street
> shop or local retail park.
Shucks! I'll e-mail Bill now, and tell him it's all over, Mickey
can't see.
> I also find it difficult to accept that the tie up with sharp is
> official with them. Again there is no mention of it on their website
I'm sure the competitors in Sharp's market feel exactly
like you do.
> What about the AROS project? Sure you claim to be in contact with them
> on a weekly basis, but don't Amiga think it would be great to have an
> AOS clone running on another type of hardware?
...an army doesn't attack in single file! They advance on broad and
varied fronts and flanks, even from arrears, with the strategy changing
as the battle rages. Linux Apus, mOrphos, AROS, OS4, QNX,etc
will all go forward because they want to. The small platoon in
Snoqualmie can't be everywhere. When/if these other folks put
their efforts up for sale, Amiga will buy...if they want to.
> Having said all that I will purchase the AmigaOne and AOS4.0 if the
> prices are not extortionate.
if you don't consider the price of the accepted standards in the windoze
software catalog extortion, and the need to continually DOUBLE the
ram, processor speed, and storage requirements just to run win-u-name-it,
then go to your room and stand in the corner, and recite the contents of
Aminet, you naughty naughty EXX Amigan! 8')
> To recap, nothing has really changed
...except that I will soon be running my Amiga with
at bare minimum, a G3 /256 megs ram, and a
Voodoo or Matrox graphics card, and millions of
shopping carts this Christmas will contain the fruits
of Sharps fine line of PDA's, Boing logo in the
very, very, fine print.
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