Why still no revival of Hyperion's "Welcome to AmigaOS4.0" site?

I'm afraid Hyperion are still somewhat underestimating the power that lies behind their dedicated community. Look at the OpenAmiga initiative, or Steven Solie's recent call to arms. These are the steps in the right direction because Hyperion's hands are apparently too tied to make substantial progress on all fronts: development, marketing and promotion.

Have no resources for making an OS4-promoting web because you are too busy doing "more important stuff"? Good. I know there are people who would just die for being asked for help! Guys like imagodespira or djnick could knock off a web that looks way better than Hyperion's own web, in no time and just for the fun of it.

The current Amiga community is based on a mutual understanding. "We give you the OS you love - you buy outrageously expensive hardware to run it. We upgrade the OS you love - you have to wait a long time. We show you the OS you love - you travel to devil's end to meet us." In other words, "we give something to you - you give something to us." And it works, doesn't it? So why not use the potential that it brings into the game?

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As trixie said, it might be lack of resources... but
1) bringing up old AOS 4.0 website just takes a couple of minutes
2) All sort of marketing help can be provided by different people here and there.

I think it is not the problem. If you do something marketing/PR-wise you got to do it 120%. Right timing, good presentation, clear images and language are very important.

if it isn't 120%, donnot go for it ! Making your marketing better, MUST result in more revenue

The old site is not uptodate anymore, and it is not just about replacing 4.0 with 4.1. For example the "scaling capabilities of OS4" targeted on mobile devices is totally outdated,.... (as far as my limited knowlegde goes)

A good example was the X1000 riddle, it was really good but the timing was somehow not perfect, it may have been better not to put that one up (by the time), even though it was not intended as marketing/PR thing. Hope they have something even more appealing for release of X1000 ?

Maybe it is not the right time yet for doing marketing/PR ?

greetings Gero

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I can't fathom why Hyperion don't get more outside help either. If one person got fed-up enough to do this site all on their own (and without even owning an OS4 machine!), then I'm pretty sure there must be several people who'd be happy to help Hyperion if they just asked...

Steven Solie's recent "call to arms" is arguably that, but (a) it's taken a long time for that to happen, and (b) they probably need to be a bit more specific about what they'd like help with - or even pro-actively ask people (and if they don't know who to ask, then I'm sure they will know someone who WILL know who to ask!).

@rigo
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One option I forgot to include was:

* Hyperion tell us not to worry, because "D" is being correctly handled, but they can't (yet) explain why.

That one seems quite likely, if only Hyperion would interact a little bit more with the community & treat us as adults (at least on Amigans.net ... AW.net is a different matter).

@Trixie
@ChrisH

Great post!