@polka.

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polka. wrote: @saimo Quote: Right. And how do you know that the projects being developed these days are "outdated, underperforming, slowly if at all developed, overpriced" and will be "poorly marketed"? This is just more FUD. The circumstances for most of these projects (tiny target group, nearly no profits to be made, additional license costs, tiny production runs, not much of a market for desktop PPC, costs of custom solutions, restriction to only PPC, the bad price/performance ratio of PPC compared to x86) simply doesn't allow to produce and sell hardware which can't be described with those adjectives (well, unless you can convince Richard Branson for doing the funding ).

Please report the facts that prove that "the circumstances for most of these projects" are:

- "tiny target group";
- "nearly no profits to be made";
- "tiny production runs";

and also those that prove that:

- the "costs of custom solutions" are unbearable also in the specific cases;
- the bad price/performance ratio of PPC compared to x86) would deadly affect the success of the projects - not to mention that for some of the projects nobody even knows which PPC processor is going to be used;
- the "additional license costs" are unbearable.

Yours is no less guesswork than SeeHund's.

saimo

edit: I mentioned SeeHund exclusively because the discussion - which the quote polka reported belongs to - was going on between him and me.

Last edited by saimo on 07-Sep-2006 at 04:28 PM.

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