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Originally posted by dogscoff:
Hmm. Nested quotes loses the comment in the quote ? IIRC it was "If you write it for the Amiga, I will buy it.
Amiga.com
ANNOUNCEMENT
Amiga concepts
I will be careful what I say - do not want to get flamed. I read other Posts but you can get the links yourself off the first one if you are interested.
1) I bought an Amiga 1000 in 86 and had very high hopes for it. As an open OS it was exactly what I wanted.
2) Things were okay for a couple years but poor marketing/ distribution/ financial management outweighed superb concept and revolutionary design.
3) They were systematically crushed in the marketplace by Windows/PC manufacturers and went bankrupt three times.
4) Their current incarnation started in Jan 2000 with a new even more flexible concept and strategy.
5) They give committed applications as of 9/14/00 and no update since then.
6) item 5) says it all, they are going down the tubes yet again, and this in spite of millions of Users who love them and thousands of developers who are using them.
7) Fighting the MS behemoth is a losing proposition until the government steps in and busts its butt the way Ma Bell was taught not to strangle other long distance carriers. Which is precisely what the govt SAYS it is trying to do, but it will probably take 10 years unless the priority and funding of that antitrust lawsuit goes WAY UP.
8) Amiga may be tolerated and allowed to survive only if they scale back and follow Apple's survival strategy - pick a niche and do NOT aggravate the monster.
9) I would be delighted to develop my software in Amiga's Digital Environment but the question is whether the company would be alive long enough to see the code written, let alone the first game sold.....
[This message has been edited by LCC (edited 02 August 2001).]