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Then I'm sure you agree that hardware which is cheaper and considerably more powerful at the same time than the uA1 (for instance a MacMini), would have sold at a considerably faster rate. |
No, I don't. Well, not in the way you want to look at it, at least.
Yes, I am sure that a board that was twice as fast and half as broken as the uA1, selling for half the price of the uA1, would have sold more than the uA1. However, I am also sure that it wasn't Alan's aversion to money which made him order uA1s in such tiny batches.
Sales for the uA1 were in the triple figues, and probably rather in the lower half of the triple-figure range. Lifetime sales of the A1, all models, are in the very low quad figures; Same for lifetime sales of the Pegasos, as well as for lifetime sales of AmigaOS XL, same as lifetime sales of "Club Amiga" membership scam coupons, same as Party Packs. The number of users who log into AW.net at least once every three months is also at the very low end of quad figures (and it's the low end of the triple-figure range for amigans.net).
Which all means that the total number of people interested enough to buy hardware, any kind of hardware, for AmigaOS, or something like AmigaOS, is in the four-figure range, at best.
Think of it this way --- in terms of actual usefulness as an OS, OS4 is to Linux what AROS is to OS4; From an OS4 user's view, AROS is incomplete, has less-than-perfect stability, and most of all, lacks applications. While it may be interesting, you can't actually *do* much with it. Well, guess what --- even a linux user (let alone an OS-X user) can say the exact same thing about OS4. And while there are *more* people who have enough disposable income to spend $500 on "interesting" than people who can spend $1000 on it, there still aren't *many*.
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