CompuServe Messages

Anywho. We can debate this stuff all-year round and not come to any constructive conclusions. The point to make about all this is, if the Amiga just represents a marginal alternative from a technical standpoint (circa 1995), why bother with it? This is precisely why, as it stands in all its fanatic glory, the Amiga doesn't stand a chance of survival. The only way it can, is to offer solid value that simply cannot be matched elsewhere at this point of time. I'm not talking about extra MIPS or MFLOPS (although that doesn't hurt), but about solutions to actual needs out there. The Amiga has a credible reputation in video and CBT/Kiosks. Exploit that angle to the max, with solutions "clefs-en-main" (turnkey). If it hooks, then, and only then, they may have the luxury of branching out and even competing with the Big Bad Boys. I predict that if Escom just stamps out the same boxes with '060 processors, we'll be witnessing the machine's second death by this time next year. The only way out and up, is for them to demonstrate superior marketing savvy AND cyberspaced innovation spirits. The problem, is that every Dick, John and Harry thinks he/she has the solution – haha, like me, right? – but that only a small fraction of this idea pool would actually result in survival and possibly market gain. It's like betting at the horse track, but you're only allowed to place on chronic losers. The trick then, is to pick a horse/jockey combo, pump them up on steroids and one-minded training, and bet the house on them. There's no sense in betting a little bit here, a little bit there, because… try to bear with me here …you've just had a heart attack and the doctors don't give you much more time to live. So where are the goods? Where's our "Media Blaster", "E=MC2" or whatever. Hasn't it been already a full year it's been comatose (and not in too good shape before that either)?