@COBRA

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When we had a poll on AW.net about who uses what hardware there were only around 200 people claiming to own an AmigaOne. If total AmigaOne sales are in the lower end of the 4-figure range, that means less than 1/5th of the AmigaOne owners have actually been visiting AW.net.

No, it means less than 1/5th of the AmigaOne owners choose to take part in the poll. How many of the 3092 registered members actually answered?

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I think that if affordable hardware would be available that is powerful at the same time (good value for money), then with a steady supply, in the first year it'd sell in the lower end of the 4-digit range.

"Good value for money" compared with what? And how do you expect to get any "good value for money" on hardware that is selling 100-200 a month?

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A building market, steadily growing userbase means developers see a future in the platform and become more active.

What "building market"? You think of 1000-2000 units as a "market"? PLEASE! That's what Apple sells every single day. It's the number of users estimated to have taken up linux every single day in 1994. It's less than the number of people who had actually registered a dual Pentium 3 machine with the Linux Counter in 2006.
Linux found it extremely hard to get any commercial software in 1994 (and instead brave souls made a wrapper which allowed it to run SCO Unix software). Apple today finds it difficult to keep high-profile software makers from abandoning the MacOS. And certainly nobody in their right mind would ever even consider writing software targeted exclusively at Dual-Pentium3 owners running linux.

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however I think that we'd have that by now if it wasn't for the rather depressing hardware situation.

Who do you think would have done the porting job on Firefox? I am serious --- who do you think is capable enough to do it, yet stupid enough to spend the enormous amount of time and effort required for the essentially non-existent benefit that can be derived from the Amiga market?


Hardware is not the problem. Lack of hardware is a symptom. The problem is that OS4, while interesting, simply isn't all that useful. And so far, nobody has put forward a realistic way of changing that simple fact.