Looks like they picked up on the Q&A from Amigaweb.net

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Monday, October 8th Amiga: OS5 better than Mac OS X Amiga CEO Bill McEwen has declared that his company's OS5 will be better than Mac OS X (link: http://www.amigaweb.net/index.php?function=view_news&id=773 ), insisting that the forthcoming operating system has much to offer while refusing to give any details. Amiga's OS5 is well underway, according to McEwen, who promised to serve up a press release before the end of 2007 offering details on Amiga's secret project. "Details for OS 5 will be made public in the fourth quarter of 2007, and then you will have a much clearer understanding and I will let you decide if what I know to be true is accurate," the executive said. OS5 is said to scale to its host hardware, allowing the system software to run on anything from mobile phones to consoles and servers. Amiga is currently fighting a legal battle over OS4, but McEwen said OS5 is ahead of schedule as he reiterated forthcoming announcements in the fourth quarter of this year.

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http://www.macnn.com/articles/07/10/08/amiga.ceo.on.os5.mac.os.x/

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@fairlanefastback

damm this sound umm yeah oh well keeeping on the postive l say nothing

like sgt sutch from hogans heroes

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[sarcasm on]
Ooooh, MacOS X! How could anyone do better?! A panel with jumping icons! A customizable desktop background AND highlighting color! A Finder that looks like Windows Explorer, can you beat that! And a slightly modernized version of narrator.device! It even TALKS to you! Plus a dozen of API frameworks to choose from, for the really motivated programmer! And don't forget Objective C, Smalltalk is your friend! Objective C is a SUPERSET of C++. This sure can't be beaten! You must be kidding me!
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@fairlanefastback

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OS5 better than Mac OS X

Has Fleetwood Mac got anything to say about that?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=V_CDJfXRMtY

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@fairlanefastback

And... as a friend of mine usually say: "e mo sò cavoli amari" (and now these are all bitter cabbage).

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If it was so easy to make, why isn't it applied anywhere? Even if COPIED it doesn't... as for copying explorer, how long finder exists? How much variance can exist exploring files? Did Microsoft invented the tree model? REALLY!?

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@fairlanefastback

TIS

@All

If Amiga Inc. fail to deliver OS5, this could ridicule the Amiga name and the community for the next 50 years!

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@voyager2007

Ok, I'll bite....

Does AmiDock have the ease-of-use of the OS X dock? Does anything else for that matter?

If you want to customise OS X more, try installing some theme software - it's quite easy.

The Finder looks rather like the old MacOS crossed with NeXTStep. Considering that's what the OS is (and a damn sight older than Windows 98) Microsoft don't even deserve to be mentioned.

A slightly modified version of narrator.device? That's one small feature out of hundreds, and it's far more than that. OS X can actually describe the interface from menu items to text. If you're partially sighted, this might be the most important feature on your computer, and Amiga can't do it.

A dozen API frameworks to choose from! Yeah like, Carbon and, um, Cocoa (Carbon being for legacy apps only) Totally unlike MUI, Reaction, Feelin and others.

Objective C is a superset of C++... No it isn't.



Edit: whoops mixed you up with AchtungBaby...

Chris

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I think Bill must have picked up the same disease that ACK had; first "these new prototypes are faster than a G5" now "OS5 better than OSX". Don't forget this is after "Amiga Inc is worth millions" (allegedly said by AI to DiscreetFX). Where does the illusion end and reality begin ?

@AmigaBlitter

As another friend said, "Je suis un cinema".

It's all the same to me.

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TheDaddy wrote: @All If Amiga Inc. fail to deliver OS5, this could ridicule the Amiga name and the community for the next 50 years!

And both of us that make up the community are ####ed.

@BrianK

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@fairlanefastback

Where is a link where Bill actually says that "OS5 better than OSX news" ? I read the QnA and Bill doesn't say it there that I could see, but it is referenced as something he said eariler. Eariler where?

@fairlanefastback

I've been using my iBook with Tiger for about a year now. I'm pretty happy with it. My biggest complaint is the single mouse button. Even with aa USB mouse with more buttons that work, this single button design has created uncommon but annoying problems for me. I also get the spinning rainbow circle thingy a lot these days, which is annoying, it'd be nicer if it responded faster. And since I got it it never really wanted to shut down properly, I'd tell it using the menu to shut down but I'd click OK or let it time down and then it stayed on, and I'd usually have to hold the power button for a while to force it off. Seems as if there's a memory leak in there somewhere bogging it down, I mostly use it for Firefox and Thunderbird, and Firefox is the more likely culprit IMHO for a leak to mangle the system just because of usage. The battery lasts way longer than my PC laptop which is nice.

Anyway. Even with these complaints, I do not see Amiga Inc. surpassing it with this OS5 Bill speaks of. He needs to earn my trust back before I consider any reality to this, and I write off most of what he's said for the last couple years as BS.

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I'd use Safari or Opera on a Mac instead of Firefox. Safari is awesome but Opera has a couple features that put it slightly ahead for me. One of those is that you can always start from your last session, and the other is that when you increase text size, you increase the size of everything on the page. That's a PITA in most places, but comes in handy at YouTube, where you can make the movies bigger.

The Mac version of Firefox can at least inmport the Bookmarks Bar from Safari. I forget, but did Amiga browsers pioneer that feature, called Fastlinks on our side? And which was the first browser with tabbed browsing?

Anyway, my major carp about Firefox is that it downloads pictures at a glacial pace and it crashes a lot on my PC.

As for OS5 ... I'll believe it when I see it.

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@fairlanefastback

If Hyperion is allows to continue what they started AmigaOS5 might be on the same level as MacOSX is to day, AmigaOS4 is pretty close what Windows98 or MacOS9 is, if you remove a few components her and there.

This what Hans has been saying they will add to OS4.x or OS5.0

• 3D Intuition
• Full memory protection
• Resource tracking
• Run OS4 application virtually (like MacOS9 does for MacOSX)

We have some one working X11 for AmigaOS4, and will be running many of the same applications.

But I’m uncertain when comes to Amiga Inc planes for OS5, they seams to be bloated around the AA2 technology, and I don’t get clear picture what Amiga Inc’s AmigaOS5 is.

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Looks like they picked up on the Q&A from Amigaweb.net

AInc. making themselves look unprofessional again.

I bet Apple are quaking in their boots.

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If Hyperion is allows to continue what they started AmigaOS5 might be on the same level as MacOSX is to day,

You would have to give Hyperion a whole load of extra resource and time to get that far.

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AmigaOS4 is pretty close what Windows98 or MacOS9 is, if you remove a few components her and there.

I would hope that OS4 is beyond a 9 year old operating system by now.

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But I’m uncertain when comes to Amiga Inc planes for OS5, they seams to be bloated around the AA2 technology, and I don’t get clear picture what Amiga Inc’s AmigaOS5 is.

They are not making AA2 and OS5 clear as neither product exists.

Why AInc. is continuing to make statements about products that do not and only have a very slim chance of ever existing still remains a mystery. Much like the Kent Centre.

They are clearly receiving some 'free' cash from somewhere - but not from business sales like a normal company just from investors. Investors that must be very easy to keep interested.

Very, very easy to keep interested.

And don't actually look into their investments. Ever.

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Hypex wrote: @fairlanefastback Where is a link where Bill actually says that "OS5 better than OSX news" ? I read the QnA and Bill doesn't say it there that I could see, but it is referenced as something he said eariler. Eariler where?

Its here:
http://www.templeoftech.com/viewarticlepage.cka?articleid=62&pageid=1

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2.) In your 25 questions at Amiga.Org you mentioned that Amiga has been working on OS5 for almost 2 years. What is the planned release date for OS5? BM>> We have a schedule, but at this time we are not going to put that information out there. I should also state that the name OS 5 is going to change. The product that we are going to ship is going to be much better than OSX from Apple, so OS 5 is not an accurate name or description of the product offering.

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Hypex wrote: @fairlanefastback Where is a link where Bill actually says that "OS5 better than OSX news" ? I read the QnA and Bill doesn't say it there that I could see, but it is referenced as something he said eariler. Eariler where?

Take a look here.

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