Amiga, has a small core market right now (yes, VERY small) and going down this road, the X1000 could provide the right platform for the OS to "evolve", thus leading to a cheaper X---- solution that might in turn grow the market by fishing in a (still small) pool of ex OS3.9 users.

Yes I know, small goals (which are actually not that small considering our situation) which cater for an existing group of individuals that love the Amiga Operating System and love not to give in to Wintel/Mactel corporation.

If you ditch your potential users base for the "bigger" market (as some have suggested) you have to face the harsh reality that the people in that market were NOT waiting for you.

Dave said Apple did better on x86 than they did with PPC, but the reason for that has nothing to do with the "switch", it has to do with billion dollars marketing campaigns around their other "hip" products iPod/Iphones etc. (which Dave also mentioned) without which, the overpriced x86 Macs wouldn't sell any better than the PPC ones of before.

Is there anyone in Amigaland with enough money to pull that off? If there is, than would the real billionaire please stand up?

Last edited by DAX on 17-Apr-2011 at 11:19 AM.

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CodeSmith wrote: @cheesegrate I have a hunch that if Dave had said that OS4 is great and PPC is the best way to make a next-gen amiga, someone else would be chiming in to disagree (exactly who would be disagreeing would depend on what was said). Just sayin'

Of course they would. And that's why I'm stressing, THESE ARE MY OPINIONS. Not some gospel delivered from on high -- this is not an Apple board, and I'm not projecting a reality distortion field. One of these days, maybe... I think that's Apple's best invention ever.