I mean, I wish Commodore was still around, a lot of nostalgia, but what do you expect, when your only differentiation is price, and you do not build a structure around your business that creates customer lock-in in some way, it becomes hard to create sustainable profits and stick around.
With Windows and Intel locking down the enterprise, you really had to create some kind of premium brand like Apple did, not focus on the low end.
The Amiga was hardly a low end computer. I bought a 500 in 1989 and they were wonderful machines. The high end systems could run Unix and were used in commercial video production. You just can't compete with platform effects though, and there wasn't a gap in the market between the Venn diagrams of the PC, Apple and Linux behemoths. In the end not even Sun could make a go of it.
I think what was meant is that Amiga’s market share was predominantly in the home computer space. And its software catalog consisted primarily of video games rather than productivity software. In that sense it was low end.
It was wedged between game consoles and PC’s, and it eventually couldn’t compete against neither.
There was the Video Toaster, but that was a small business at the time compared to desktop publishing. And unlike Apple's immensely profitable LaserWriter, the Toaster was a 3rd party product.
The picture of the teenager holding a piece of paper in front of a commodore is of Regina King [0].
[0] https://www.fineartstorehouse.com/michael-ochs-archives/regi...
Article is dated yesterday but says,
> Hyperion has only just settled the various legal issues as of writing, today, August 4, 2026.
Discussion on main source then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49175868
I mean, I wish Commodore was still around, a lot of nostalgia, but what do you expect, when your only differentiation is price, and you do not build a structure around your business that creates customer lock-in in some way, it becomes hard to create sustainable profits and stick around.
With Windows and Intel locking down the enterprise, you really had to create some kind of premium brand like Apple did, not focus on the low end.
The Amiga was hardly a low end computer. I bought a 500 in 1989 and they were wonderful machines. The high end systems could run Unix and were used in commercial video production. You just can't compete with platform effects though, and there wasn't a gap in the market between the Venn diagrams of the PC, Apple and Linux behemoths. In the end not even Sun could make a go of it.
I think what was meant is that Amiga’s market share was predominantly in the home computer space. And its software catalog consisted primarily of video games rather than productivity software. In that sense it was low end.
It was wedged between game consoles and PC’s, and it eventually couldn’t compete against neither.
There was the Video Toaster, but that was a small business at the time compared to desktop publishing. And unlike Apple's immensely profitable LaserWriter, the Toaster was a 3rd party product.
yeah basically stuck in the middle market, a pre iminent death.
this links to one of these stupid endlessly loading back-button injecting garbage sites. Is this slop?
It's Boy Genius Report, which used to be decent but was sold to a media conglomerate, with predictable results as you can see.