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On the other hand, as much as I have seen and heard that speech, I come to think that sadly many Amiga resellers/developers/hardware_designers (but not all), want to milk the cow at exorbitant prices and lousy products, with the old tale of economy of scale, niche markets, or whatever.
This is an attitude that does not encourage the preservation of the Amiga as a viable commercial market at all.
As hard as it is to understand and accept, it is not the Amiga resellers/developers/hardware_designers job to preserve the Amiga market. (I agree that some degree of cooperation is desirable, and would hope that they wish the Amiga market to continue, since it is in their best interest, but only if they continue to make a profit from Amiga products and services)
They provide, or try to provide a service or product at a price that they can make a profit from at a price they believe the "market" will pay. If there is no market, they move into other markets where they can make a profit, or they close shop and do something else. Of course any reseller/developer/hardware_designer that deliberately price gouges their customers will not survive long in any market, so I am not condoning such an attitude or actions, but all to often the Amiga users cry about the prices they must pay for services or products without having any clue about the actual operational & production costs to provide those services or products.
You have your opinion regarding how often Amiga services and products are being offered at "exorbitant" prices, which differs from my opinion about how often this happens, but if no one else is offering the same service or product to the Amiga community it does not matter what either of us think. It is the sellers choice to ask what ever they want and let the "market" determine if the service or product will survive at that price point. The point I was trying to make was that if we don't show existing and potential new resellers/developers/hardware_designers that there is an Amiga market willing to spend money on Amiga products and services, we will not see any new resellers/developers/hardware_designers and eventually will lose the existing resellers/developers/hardware_designers that we have now.
They even make investments on unreasonably dumb bounties that after sometime they regret that they have supported, instead of focusing what the community, and finally, what that market needs.
You are obviously referring to specific company(ies) and product(s) that you feel are not needed or wanted by the Amiga community. My response to that is, if the product or service is not wanted or needed it will fail to sell and hurts only the company or individual(s) who have invested the time and money to produce it. I don't see how that hurts the Amiga community, unless other companies see the failure as a lack of an Amiga community being left to support any similar products they might be thinking of producing.
Look, on the contrary, how succesfull some very few Amiga resellers/developers/hardware_designers have been, that they felt humble enough, and took the time to analyse the community´s needs and have provided viable solutions.
I don't understand how this point is related to what I wrote. Good products at prices the community is willing to pay succeed and bad ones, or ones that are priced too high, don't succeed.
The Amiga user market has indeed responded by buying from them leaving many of their products literally out of stock.
It is not that Amiga users are cheap. As an example, all Amiga users I have personally contacted so far this year, have at least spent 200 US$ in Amiga accesories this year, despite there are not many available, and even some like me, have spent well over 800 US$. But then most of the time I, like many others find difficult, if not impossible, to get a particular Amiga item, despite the money that we have already stashed for that purpose.
How much of the money above that you mentioned was spent on software (not counting the OS)? My guess is zero, or very close to it. My comparison of Amiga users to Linux users was mostly in regard to the willingness of the users to spend money on 3rd party software, not hardware. I don't know too many users of any platform that expect to get their hardware for free. I could have been more specific and excluded all hardware from my message, but chose to be inclusive, instead of software specific. What is lacking from the Amiga community today, the availability of new, modern software to bring us closer to having a system we can use for more of our computing needs, or hardware to run the *Amiga* OS of your choice? My opinion says (now that we have at least SOME hardware available) we need more developers and 3rd party software and games much more than hardware to increase the number of users and by having more users, we will see more developers and larger production runs of hardware.
So sanity and cooperation have to work both ways 
I totally agree!
