CEO of Amiga Says OS 5 Will Top Mac OS X

Pete Mortensen ()

mhomegirl.gifRemember 1988? Bill McEwen certainly does. And that’s why he’s the CEO of Amiga, Inc., a little company still churning along based on the stellar reputation that Commodore’s Amiga enjoyed back in the late ’80s. For awhile there, some actually thought the Amiga would really duke it out with Apple for supremacy. And Bill McEwen still thinks it can happen, as he lays out in a baffling interview on Amiga Web:

16) You’ve claimed earlier that OS5 will be better than Mac OS X. Can you tell us in what way?

Details for OS 5 will be made public in the 4th 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.

Also:

28) In the era of the Mac mini, iPhone, $100 laptop, and Efika, what innovative products can Amiga Inc. bring to the information technology market?

Our plans and product strategy take all of the above question items and others into account. Until I am able to show it to you, I will just have to say that there is plenty of places for Amiga to succeed.

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You hear that Apple? A company that thinks this weird picture of a woman with a cell phone belongs on the front page of their website is taking the Mac mini and the iPhone into account. So there! Just consider yourself accounted for! I love true believers.

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Pete Mortensen is a design strategist for consulting firm Jump Associates and the co-author of Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy, a book and blog that are significantly more interesting than you might initially think. Pete's particular Apple avocations are both around design--interface and industrial. Follow him on Twitter!

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  • Mat Hall

    It ain’t over ’til the Fat Agnus sings. :)

  • Don Pope

    Ouch! That is the lamest webpage i’ve seen in a long time.
    If they can’t even put up a decent website I doubt their OS will be any good.

  • Joe

    LOL…I had an Amiga 500 back in 89-91 time frame….it was great for Leisure Suit Larry, Spacequest, Wizardry, etc…..

  • InfoMofo

    They can’t be doing that badly… They were obviously able to hire Hype Williams to do their photography.

    Seriously, that girl’s hands look freaking huge.

  • d0b3rmann

    Wow, it is a terrible website, all the pictures are equally creepy, and the front page pic is even out of focus.

    “Amiga provides the tools and technology that makes Digital Livingâ„¢ easy.”, yet all they have in their products section is games. A company that at one time was a “pioneer” of many significant technologies is now reduced to a developer of really bad quality games that seem like shareware from 1990. Now that is sad.

    The worst part is the CEO is laughing all the way to the bank, surely he doesn’t make as much as an “A-list” CEO, but he’s still cashing what is likely a very large check for just a whole lot of talk with no solid information, no proof, only to keep a community of people hoping for an “Amiga revival” that is very likely never going to happen.

  • Denise

    I have great memories of my Amiga 500 and 1200 but can’t see myself investing in another one. Mr. McEwen gives a new meaning to die hard!