| From: | Don and Lynn Benson |
| Date: | 20 Sep 99 at 03:10:03 |
| Subject: | [just-amiga] Re: Amiga - any future? |
From: Don and Lynn Benson <dlbenson@psnw.com>
Hi Frank
In the most part I whole heartedly agree with you. The only
opening I see is the offer about Linux and the GUI they started.
My qualm is, how much have they really done on it? Or on the MMC
for that matter. If it was obvious they were not going to make
the deadline it sounds like there were more problems than they
let out. I just hope they have not soured the name Amiga to make
it unattractive is there is someone out there who is willing to
try and has the backing.
In a similar vein, what do you think about the G4 board with QNX?
Do you think the lack of software will hurt sales. I have not
heard anything about any software for it, yet.
On 19-Sep-99, Frank Bunton wrote:
> From: Frank Bunton <bunton@acay.com.au>
>
> I quote below the final words from
> Open Letter to the Amiga Community
> September 17, 1999
> From
> Thomas J. Schmidt
> President and CEO
> Amiga, Inc.
>
>> In summary, we are continuing to focus our
>> resources on setting software standards for
>> the coming generation of Internet appliances.
>> We are not planning to offer hardware devices,
>> but will work with hardware manufacturers who
>> want to license our technology. As far as
>> offering next-generation Amiga systems, we
>> are open to talking to companies who want to
>> offer such a product.
>
> To be honest, if I were a hardware developer, I don't think I
> would be too enthused about developing the hardware when Amiga
> Inc. seem to be only interested in "Internet Appliances"!
>
> To my way of thinking, the only way a new Amiga computer would
> be able to take off again would be for Amiga Inc. to produce
> the new Amiga computer and back it up with solid advertising.
> Nothing will take off without solid positive advertising from
> Amiga Inc. itself. Their current comments only seem to
> reinforce our opinions that they are only interested in the
> "Internet Appliances" side of things.
>
-----Don
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