By Jamon
Mon Aug 27, 2012 10:01 am
They should just release whatever they have. That fear about being exposed leading to being attacked isn't entirely baseless, but it seems to be overly paranoid a lot of the time, and it's possible to defend against threats.
But with an old product like that, it's not generating income anymore, so anything you do with it is a loss. To do a run of ROMs or whatever is an expense, with no direct gains. Plus it could be creating new expectations of support and legal problems.
It's why it's more attractive to bury something than set it free to continue living outside you. As long as it's alive out there, it is felt to be an ongoing risk, which either requires cost to maintain, or is an unpredictable source of problems.
That's being conservative though. A company can also have the strength to think outside the scaredy box, and attempt something with a bigger purpose than just following the path set out for them by market forces of profit and loss.
But with JJ, what are the odds anyone cares? Even if there's some existing agreement or expectation with someone who might care like Akai, there's often a way to make things work, when you are willing to push through a path with resistance.
With bigger companies a major reason why nothing like that occurs is because there's no standard operating procedure for it. Most bigger businesses have no brains, and just behave like market robots. There's no one in charge really, to decide.
But JJ sounds like some guy, with another replying to emails and maybe managing the website. Akai isn't even in Japan anymore are they? What are the odds that opening up more would cause problems, and even if so, how big of problems?
If it's really such an impossible environment where everything must just follow the most conservative route just to hope to exist, then that doesn't sound very fun. So what if he gets sued, life is short, might as well try to do something with it.
Either way, not answering generally around how many people use JJ OS is ridiculous. Their website has a big old counter from the '90s. It says, "0898316". But that will go up each time someone hits, and they refresh to check for updates.
If JJ OS is 5 years old, it averages 180k/year. It seems high, but if we allowed for 10% of those hits to be paying customers, that's 18,000. If we guess it's closer to 1%, since there's so many Google hits, refreshes, manual reads, etc. that's 1,800.
They could've answered. I doubt it matters much. Which manufacturer won't give you the OS?
But with an old product like that, it's not generating income anymore, so anything you do with it is a loss. To do a run of ROMs or whatever is an expense, with no direct gains. Plus it could be creating new expectations of support and legal problems.
It's why it's more attractive to bury something than set it free to continue living outside you. As long as it's alive out there, it is felt to be an ongoing risk, which either requires cost to maintain, or is an unpredictable source of problems.
That's being conservative though. A company can also have the strength to think outside the scaredy box, and attempt something with a bigger purpose than just following the path set out for them by market forces of profit and loss.
But with JJ, what are the odds anyone cares? Even if there's some existing agreement or expectation with someone who might care like Akai, there's often a way to make things work, when you are willing to push through a path with resistance.
With bigger companies a major reason why nothing like that occurs is because there's no standard operating procedure for it. Most bigger businesses have no brains, and just behave like market robots. There's no one in charge really, to decide.
But JJ sounds like some guy, with another replying to emails and maybe managing the website. Akai isn't even in Japan anymore are they? What are the odds that opening up more would cause problems, and even if so, how big of problems?
If it's really such an impossible environment where everything must just follow the most conservative route just to hope to exist, then that doesn't sound very fun. So what if he gets sued, life is short, might as well try to do something with it.
Either way, not answering generally around how many people use JJ OS is ridiculous. Their website has a big old counter from the '90s. It says, "0898316". But that will go up each time someone hits, and they refresh to check for updates.
If JJ OS is 5 years old, it averages 180k/year. It seems high, but if we allowed for 10% of those hits to be paying customers, that's 18,000. If we guess it's closer to 1%, since there's so many Google hits, refreshes, manual reads, etc. that's 1,800.
They could've answered. I doubt it matters much. Which manufacturer won't give you the OS?
