Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc. Clarifies Company Strategy Gary Peake of Team Amiga posted this email from Amiga Inc.'s Fleecy Moss in a recent newsgroup thread. In it, Mr. Moss states that an Amiga desktop is not the primary focus of Amiga Inc. and that they do not "need" the existing Amiga community to be successful, but that it does give them an edge.
From: "Gary Peake" fleecy@netreach.net scribed to us about Re: Sober Analysis of "The
Plan" (fwd) in EMail
This is a response from Fleecy Moss, Amiga Inc regarding my post to
comp.sys.amiga.misc ... reposted here with permission from Fleecy.
>For Amiga Inc we don't "need" the existing community. Our market is >So technically the Amiga community could die and we would be ok. >The existing Amiga gives us
>a) a good name and reputation -many ppl remember it very fondly, >The problem is that many in the existing community are only looking >Feel free to repost this Thanks for watching the newsgroups and correcting us where we need it
Fleecy!
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
Subject: Re: Sober Analysis of "The Plan"
Date: 27 Oct 98 23:13:04 -0600
>much bigger than just desktops and, in another sense, it won't be us
>that concentrates on the desktop and high end, it will be our
>licencees. Our OS and HW references will scale.
>However, this is a limited way of looking at the situation.
>b) a worldwide seed community for the new machines - not many
>companies can work on a product with an almost guaranteed first sale
>of 100,00 units. c) a worldwide evangelical force d) a very talented
>pool of developers e) a philosophy and attitude that is just waiting
>to be promoted and will be so much more effective than the stale
>Apple "think Differently"
>at their existing 1980's definition of computing, and of how the
>Amiga fits into that, so because we are not building PPC A5000s with
>PPCOS4, they feel betrayed. It requires a whole new mindset
>-computers are no longer just geek toys - they are the conduits for
>digital information.
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