iWin
Ever heard of PowerSE? If you have, then you're already one better than me, because I haven't. It's the product that iWin Corporation claim to make, along with various different computer workstations and servers. However, no-one has ever heard of them, and so far, no-one has found any evidence that they actually really exist?
So are iWin a hoax or not? Well, if it is, it is THE most elaborate hoax the Amiga world has ever seen! There only seems to be one person at the 'company', and he seems to have gone to some VERY extreme lengths to con a few thousand people.
Let's take a look at the evidence shall we?
For. | Against. |
The website, it's well designed, and very extensive | Anyone could do it. All you have to do is register a domain and be good at HTML. |
They are listed as partners of Sun Microsystems | Anyone could do this also. Sun have a form on their site. Fill it in, and you're a partner! |
The iWin website went down just a few days before WOA5's release date. People are speculating that they may have forgotten the InterNIC fee. Not something legitimate company's would do. | |
They were trying to get the Commodore name from a company who bought it a while ago. | They gave up. Why? |
They claimed to be producing two new Amiga's which had the prefix 'A' on their name (A510, etc.) | They're not licenced to do that! They had to rename the machines and call them Motorola Workstations. |
Amiga have never heard of them. | |
They had a press meeting a few days before this issue was released. | No conclusive evidence of the companie's legitimacy was found at the press conference. Infact, it raised more questions than it answered. |
Also, why is it that iWin seem to mimic everything that other companies do? When Amiga went into silent running mode, iWin did exactly the same thing. Motorola released a direction plan a few weeks before WOA5, and iWin seem to have done exactly the same thing.
It's even rumoured that iWin set up an 'Amateur' news site called .amiupdate, just so they could pretend to interview iWin and put it on the news site to make it seem legitimate. No-one else has ever got an interview from iWin!
So, is it hoax or real? We want to know what you think. Send your views to us at woa@trogsoft.freeserve.co.uk.
Anyway, in a few weeks, iWin say they'll have the machines to show us, and they'll be rolling out of the manufacturing plant. We'll see.
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- STOP PRESS -
Just 1 day before this issue was released, "Focke Systems"
have taken over iWin Corporation, and intend to split into
three seperate divisions. I think that name just about
confirms the hoax status, don't you?