Amiga users and Android cell phones -- the paradox.
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I always figured that one of the main reasons for a lot of the Amigan crowds love for Android was precisely because it was niether Apple or Microsoft, which were around at the time of C= and wasn't "Linux" in the sense that most understand it.
It was untainted.
Whilst I won't argue the points from a dev point of view, I feel the need to remind folks on here that the vast majority of Amiga users are not developers nor have the inclination to become such. Sure, they'll parrot many of the opinions here, but they do so from a position of lack of first hand knowledge.
Hmm, that was a lot harder to write without being rude than I expected
It was untainted.
Whilst I won't argue the points from a dev point of view, I feel the need to remind folks on here that the vast majority of Amiga users are not developers nor have the inclination to become such. Sure, they'll parrot many of the opinions here, but they do so from a position of lack of first hand knowledge.
Hmm, that was a lot harder to write without being rude than I expected
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I don't see any of the modern platforms being Amiga-like and certainly not the iPhone.
The Amiga always "felt" fast (once you had an HD), nothing feels fast today, except Haiku.
On the other hand everything is Amiga-like in some ways. They all use customs chips now, they all multi-task (except for iOS which kind-of-sort-of multitasks).
In terms of software advancements, Symbian is still ahead of everyone. The UI the phone makers give it might suck but the underlying technology is actually very advanced - there's a reason it has far better battery life than anyone else.
The Amiga, when it first came out was way ahead of everyone else. The software was another story, it was advanced but took them years to get it right. The early releases of "Workbench" were not exactly stable and to do anything advanced you had to learn to use the command line.
The iPhone is pretty much the opposite of this. The software is very polished, but the hardware is average. There's much more powerful Android phones on the market. My phone is more powerful than the iPad 2!
I don't see any reason Apple or Android is more Amiga like.
Me, I use Macs and have an Android phone. I have an iPad and I do like it but don't use it that much.
BTW I also use Logic. Amigas were always easy to use and intuitive. Logic is the opposite, it might be amazingly powerful but there is nothing intuitive about it. I had to buy a video just to learn how to do the basics!
Logic is a very un-Apple like program. I'm hoping they'll do a Final Cut Pro X to it!
The Amiga always "felt" fast (once you had an HD), nothing feels fast today, except Haiku.
On the other hand everything is Amiga-like in some ways. They all use customs chips now, they all multi-task (except for iOS which kind-of-sort-of multitasks).
In terms of software advancements, Symbian is still ahead of everyone. The UI the phone makers give it might suck but the underlying technology is actually very advanced - there's a reason it has far better battery life than anyone else.
The Amiga, when it first came out was way ahead of everyone else. The software was another story, it was advanced but took them years to get it right. The early releases of "Workbench" were not exactly stable and to do anything advanced you had to learn to use the command line.
The iPhone is pretty much the opposite of this. The software is very polished, but the hardware is average. There's much more powerful Android phones on the market. My phone is more powerful than the iPad 2!
I don't see any reason Apple or Android is more Amiga like.
Me, I use Macs and have an Android phone. I have an iPad and I do like it but don't use it that much.
BTW I also use Logic. Amigas were always easy to use and intuitive. Logic is the opposite, it might be amazingly powerful but there is nothing intuitive about it. I had to buy a video just to learn how to do the basics!
Logic is a very un-Apple like program. I'm hoping they'll do a Final Cut Pro X to it!
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This is news to me. Can you elaborate a little? And isn't Symbian for the chop? (suppose that might make it more Amiga-like; great technology, let go asunder...
)Agree 100%. The name Logic is misleading in the extreme but once you get your head around the basics it's a wonderful piece of software.
true but every release since 7 has nudged it a little more 'applewards'.
From a personal POV, it was Logic that brought me to the Mac, rather than Macs bringing me to Logic, so 'appleness' isn't that big a concern for me.
Well, I couldn't make sense of Final Cut when I tried it either, so I hope they don't.
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Yes, the OS was written by mathematicians and everything is about as efficient as it can be, far more so than AmigaOS ever was. It was also however the bane of developers everywhere as to get any kind of performance out of applications, one had to hand tune every last piece of your software to a degree that you simply didn't under other OSs. It was not a forgiving platform to work on.
