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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:05:51
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| @nimrod7 yes. but it should made for cusa too. i continue to believe that cusa customers are people who buy a "good looking" product (young guys) or "for those happy afternoon" (older guys). Anyway, excluding us which are in this and other amigoid forum, cusa customers are people who don't mind anything on "what amiga essence was" or "who betrayed the community". a non geek that would come here would run away in fear at the first flame about os4 vs morphos vs aros. and surely they wouldn't understand why their fully functional cusa c64 pc is object of war. he, in the best approach, would look at us as technonecrophiles... |
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:13:33
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| @amigang
Nah, this year, due to the financial crisis which seems to be still raging on, it was decided upon that there would be only one 'April 5th'. So all the announcements scheduled for that date had to be fitted into one single day, henxce the impression to outdo each other. Excuses for the miscomfort that may have arisen.
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:15:46
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| @rebraist
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i continue to believe that cusa customers are people who buy a "good looking" product (young guys) |
Totally off the mark if that's your belief. Young guys don't want something that looks like a relic of the early 80s like the C64x, they want slick iPads and Macbook Airs, infact you'd struggle to find many people under the age of 25 these days who know what a Commodore or Amiga is/was.
To most of the teens/early 20s guys on the IRC channels I frequent, they believe Amiga is a "bargain bucket" brand that you see on cheap TVs etc. cos of the recent press, they had no idea it was once a popular computer, to them Amiga is down there with Alba, Bush and Luxor, basically generic low-cost Chinese tvs/tablets that supermarkets etc. put their own stickers on. |
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:20:53
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:23:55
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There are already videos of it, it's just a product called the HaiPad but with an Amiga sticker on it. It's been available to buy from several "brands" for months. |
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:25:32
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| @-Sam-
I think @exec will buy 2 of each :) |
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:27:48
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There are already videos of it, it's just a product called the HaiPad but with an Amiga sticker on it. It's been available to buy from several "brands" for months. |
Could those remotely shut themselves down?
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 12:41:40
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No idea, wouldn't buy such cheap tat personally. Happy with my iPad 2. But it appears to be exactly the same tablet, it's rebadged by a few companies. Last edited by danwood on 07-Apr-2011 at 12:42 PM.
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 14:01:43
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 14:32:25
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| To bad that android tablets are now named amiga. Hmm a tad confusing to new customers; what is amiga really?
1) Classic OS 2) MorphOS 3) AmigaOS 4) Andriod? 5) Ubuntu? 6) Aros? 7) some other thing? Last edited by Yssing on 07-Apr-2011 at 02:34 PM.
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 15:47:20
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To most people, they remember it as a games machine from the late 80's. If they remember it at all.
I'm not trying to cause offence, I'm just worried that the Amiga name is on shaky enough ground as it is without being diluted further. _________________
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 16:01:15
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2 of Amigas when they come... C64 only one, as a multimedia player hooked onto TV..
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 16:38:38
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@all (who will hate me for posting this) |
You got that right. The only reason I've been stirring the loony threads is to keep this sort of stuff down. |
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 16:46:05
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You got that right. The only reason I've been stirring the loony threads is to keep this sort of stuff down. |
By comparison with a.org the past 48 hours, I'd say it's quite calm here actually.
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 17:34:46
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| @number6
Just checked up on A.org, and you're right. Its not pretty...
Hopefully the arguments will blow themselves out without spreading. But if not, there's plenty of other conspiracy theories we can debate to keep them off our front page. |
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 17:39:09
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 18:09:51
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| At a glance, this just looks like completely standard computer equipment with "Amiga" stickers slapped on.
Does this have anything to do with the Amiga besides that?
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 7-Apr-2011 18:16:22
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Does this have anything to do with the Amiga besides that? |
Unlike C=USA, IContain is not openly claiming to have representatives on this website doing PR, so I'm afraid your answer will have to wait.
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 8-Apr-2011 0:17:21
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To most people, they remember it as a games machine from the late 80's. If they remember it at all. I'm not trying to cause offence, I'm just worried that the Amiga name is on shaky enough ground as it is without being diluted further. |
It's now seen as a bargain-bucket cheap brand by most of the under 25s that have read the tech news pages lately. The legacy is all but forgotten to the younger generation. |
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Re: NEW PRODUCTS FROM AMIGA and ICONTAIN Posted on 8-Apr-2011 7:33:32
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> There are already videos of it, it's just a product called the HaiPad but with an Amiga sticker on it. It's been available to buy from several "brands" for months.
I have just seen HaiPad on Youtube. AWFUL! I just believe it is NOT what Amiga Pad is or will be. HaiPad is the worst thing that is worth ~10USD. Looks good but works terrible. Please, tell me I am wrong? _________________ nykk | deetronic.rs | youtube.com/djnykk | gfx.river | mamavolibebu.com |
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