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- From: fulldog@tag01.acnet.net (Victor Vargas G.)
- Subject: Re: Apple troubles benefit Amiga?
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- Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 09:28:25 GMT
-
- In article <4e687l$677@flood.xnet.com>, jcompton@flood.xnet.com (Jason
- Compton) wrote:
-
- > Apple has "Commodore" written all over it. Nobody trusts the management,
- > no projects are being completed, and key personnel are leaving to start a
- > new company and do things the right way.
-
- 'To commodore': the action of destroying your own, superior product
- through null marketing, bad financial decisions and sheer stupidity. As in
- 'Apple has been doing its best to commodore the Macintosh, and it now it
- seems they'll succeed' :^\
-
- > Be is the 3DO of the Apple world.
-
- Seems that Tim Jenison and Montgomery (was he?) carried the 'Amiga curse':
- the Amiga failed to evolve from its video/animation niche, the Lynx
- handheld they made for Epyx and then Atari 'marketed' lost to the GameBoy,
- and the 3DO they designed seems to be ready to get sinked by the
- Ultra64/Playstation/Saturn wars...
-
- > I've got no love lost for the Apple platform. It's not my thing. But I
- > firmly believe that the more choice there is for mainstream computer
- > users, the better off computing is in general. The Amiga isn't back at
- > the point that it's a viable mainstream choice--because except in Europe,
- > you can't FIND it anywhere. Apple is the placeholder, and token
- > non-Microsoft choice. They need to at least hold out for the next
- > generations of Amigas and other platforms--if they're successfully
- > brought to the mass market.
-
- I've been using Amiga, Macintosh and (when I had no choice) Windows for
- the past 6 years, and while I would love to use the Amiga for everything,
- I've had to use Macs for my DTP needs, and lately, for Web authoring and
- graphics manipulation. For animation, Lightwave/Imagine/Scala on the Amiga
- can't be beat and I use them everyday. But everytime I had to choose
- between PC/Mac, I didn't even think: Mac is a far superior OS than
- Windows. For me, it will be a great loss if Apple goes down, since I'll
- have to ditch all the training and experience from the Mac and start to
- get aquainted with the vagueries of .dlls, Himem, QEMM, IRQ conflicts,
- 8-character filenames, the need of 18 Mbs of RAM just to be able to write
- a letter and format a disk at the same time...
-
- Apple got greedy, they started licensing those clones two years too late,
- so now they're going to pay the price... their PowerMacs are great, but
- still too expensive, so people saw relatively cheap Pentiums and went
- away... and they got also complacient, while PCs started coming out with
- graphic accelerators and 3D boards...
-
- It seems that after all, there wil be just two left: the Windows
- 'standard', and the 'alternative' OS, the Amiga... things are REALLY gonna
- be interesting soon... who would have tought that the Amiga would be the
- one to end up against the Big Brother (remember Apple's '1984')?
-
-
- Victor Vargas
-