05.Jan.2001
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Corinna Cohn. Interviewed Bill McEwen
Corinna Cohn. called up Bill McEwen, to
clear up some rumors as much as possible. McEwen answered her some questions.
Here a summary of what Bill McEwen answered:
- AmigaOS 3.9 has upgraded Internet functionality that was missing from 3.5,
and it has multimedia players. Otherwise, most of the functionality is similar to 3.5.
Users will have to evaluate the features of 3.9 for themselves to see if there's
any value added.
- The last months were tight for Amiga Inc. from a financial point of view. They
are looking for more investors. McEwen named several sources, among them a tier one
company that would be interested in investing.
- Bill McEwen is sure to have a product that hopefully impresses investors
more than some of the ephemeral properties that other startups failed to sell.
- Money is low. Will Amiga Inc. become insolvent? McEwen replied to this question
that this is not true.
- Amiga Inc. will only exhibit at Amiga trade shows. Products will be made available
through vendors.
- Bill McEwen named some manufacturers of set-top boxes which should be available
soon. He is excited about other products appearing, especially something
that should please Amiga users.
- He reiterated that they (this being vendors using Amiga technology) had some
products ready to debut and that we should stick around to see them.
Corinna Cohn. analyzes Bill McEwens statements as follows:
"Amiga does not have a product that I as an Amiga user would necessarily want, but
that I as a computer geek might dig. We Amiga users are a technological launching
platform for a new, possibly cool technology, and Amiga wants us to continue to
pay attention to them until its ready. This explains 3.5 and 3.9, and it explains
the early appearance of the developers kit. Amiga is going to continue to blow us
kisses until they have something to impress us with or until they run out of money."
The computer industry is in an extremely hard competition. Even if it may be
difficult for us at times not to lose our faith that Amiga Inc. will achieve what
they have planned. It is worth acknowledging that they are obviously not willed
to throw in the towel even though it would be easier and more promising to
develop tools for another famous OS ...
[News message: 05. Jan. 2001, 21:45] [Comments: 0]
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