http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...keeping-sc.DTL

Whether or not they stick around long term, tablets are definitely making a market, and I'm seeing way more accompanying people out and about than I ever saw of netbooks. I hear tales daily of children and parents fighting over the iPad so much that second tablets are being purchased. As media consumption, light internet and gaming devices (don't underestimate the fun of multitouch and a g-sensor,) they definitely appeal to people who'd be doing the same sort of thing on a smartphone but want a bigger screen.

Sorry, commodorejohn, but I think the tablet is here to stay.

http://www.amazon.com/Vtech-InnoTab-.../dp/B004VJNRKG

Once the tykes grow out of the kiddie version, they're going to move on to the real thing.

-typed while sitting at bar on my $99 HP TouchPad that's been hacked to run webOS, Android and Ubuntu

You are a very good writer! :ThumbsUp:

Just wanted to say I think you should do more blog posts. I enjoyed reading these immensely

You know, all this talk about the NatAmi and those who claim the want to buy one just to play a doom type game on it, has left me thinking they really aren't serious about buying one when they are released... ;)

When you look at the estimated selling price and then consider would anyone really spend that kind of money just to play one of these games slower and probably with not as good graphics as they could on an off the shelf PC for a fraction of the cost. I can only conclude from my own logic that there is no way in hell some of these folk are actually serious about buying the NatAmi and are only saying so just for the sake of having a chat in a thread... :)

Myself I'm already thinking about what kind of programs I'd like to code to take advantage of the NatAmi and all the old programs the I've disassembled into their source code that I can optmise or add new functions to for use on the NatAmi. Been a long time since I looked forward so much towards a "new" product release and It can't come soon enough for me... :)

Even got a few ideas from these old iMacs of mine that I'd like to see implemented on the NatAmi and dare I say it, a few ideas for making some video progs where the main editing is done on the NatAmi but the result will be imported over to the Mac where crunching/compiling into a movie would be done to take advantage of the Macs faster processing speed for such a task... :)

Read all of that (phew) and have to say I agree with most of it wholeheartedly... :)

As you probably know I really only enjoy and use "real" Amiga's, it's just my thing... :)

But I have to say as much as I may come across sometimes as being anti everything else, I'm not really, it's more a case of when someone points out "their" alternative I just like to make sure it's counterbalanced by me pointing out "mine" (plus I like a good debate/ argument too)... :)

But I think your last paragraph sums everything up perfectly... well said... :)

Sounds awfully like the NatAmi

Thank you for writing these two articles. No fanboyism, reasonable ideas for the future, I can identify with many of them.

There are alternatives, such as the Minimig, AROS or UAE.

But whilst none of them have the name, the faithful are utterly dismissive of such.

The problem with the community is that there are too many people within it still who are only too happy to dream about amiga taking over the world, they dream this so hard that they're willing to follow anyone who tells them they can, without any critical thinking. I'm sorry to say that the state of the market is almost as much the fault of the community at this stage. They as a collective continue to allow these people to do this to them when there are alternatives available and have been for years.

Part of me agrees wholeheartedly with what you say here but there is another part of me that disagrees with the notion of letting the Amiga market die out altogether.

It's not the name Amiga that's at fault in all this nonsense, it still represents and means to me quite simply the best home computer ever conceived... :)

The fault is with the scum & shysters who over the years have conned this community with false hope and downright lies they have fed the Amiga community over many long years in the hope that they could make a quick buck from the name Amiga (and still to this day no-one can fathom why they still continue with this whole debacle)... :madashell:

Let them all fail as they deserve to do but bear in mind just what the name Amiga really means to all of us who got and still get such pleasure from this wee gem that can still shine out bright in the annals of computing history... :)

I'd like to see any of the afore mentioned shysters try any of those tactics against the Commodore Amiga whose head quarters are located in Tehran.

I haven't had a good laugh in ages, so bring it on gents, give us both barrels and see how far it gets you.

Allahu akbar!

Well said - this echos my thoughts on the matter entirely.

Thanks for writing this.
I think some are wanting to make more hardware but are afraid to do so.
I believe Program-able logic is a great step.