Amiga community Size

[locutus]

I was discussing this with someone on IRC some while ago.

How many Amiga users are there nowadays anyway (depends on how you define 'Amiga user' anyway).

It seem to be enough for some company's to sustain themselves on.

Does anyone know some numbers on this ?

[bloodline]

about 20.... :-)

[The_Editor]

:lol:

[mikeymike]

(depends on how you define 'Amiga user' anyway)

There lies the problem.

Semi-unrelated, but I thought it was interesting, checking out the site stats for amiga.org, how IE users "only" accounted for ~50%, rather than the ~90% on most sites.  I thought that was quite impressive.

IE users: You should be ashamed, visiting a semi-technical website with such a Fisher Price browser!  Repent!  :-)

[bloodline]

mikeymike wrote:

(depends on how you define 'Amiga user' anyway)

There lies the problem.

Semi-unrelated, but I thought it was interesting, checking out the site stats for amiga.org, how IE users "only" accounted for ~50%, rather than the ~90% on most sites.  I thought that was quite impressive.

IE users: You should be ashamed, visiting a semi-technical website with such a Fisher Price browser!  Repent!  :-)

Yeah, sorry about that MikeyMike, I haven't figured out how to get IE to spoof IBrowse yet :-D

[Vincent]

mikeymike wrote:
IE users: You should be ashamed, visiting a semi-technical website with such a Fisher Price browser!  Repent!  :-)

I identify Opera as IE6 because I couldn't get to some sites identifying as anything else.

Changed it just now tho :-D

[blakespot]

Well do most Amiga users here use Amiga as their primary machine?  I have an A2000 that I quite enjoy and am building another A1200 tower (060) for demos, etc. and to mess with AmigaOS - but my primary machine is a dual G4 Mac running OS X - alot of my recent browsing time on the Mac has been looking at Amiga sites - but I do not use the Amiga to do the Amiga browsing.  

Maybe I am odd or a 2nd class Amiga user because of this.  (Tho I was right there in '85 with an A1000!)



blakespot

[bhoggett]

locutus wrote:
How many Amiga users are there nowadays anyway (depends on how you define 'Amiga user' anyway).

Probably a couple of thousand active users, using a broad definition but not counting those who only use emulators to play retro games.

It seem to be enough for some company's to sustain themselves on.

Name one.

[KennyR]

An educated guess (and it's *only* a guess) would be the following:

People using an original Amiga on a daily basis: 1500.

People with A1 waiting for OS4, or who will buy an A1: 1200.

MorphOS users, and people waiting for Pegasos II: 1200.

"Contributing"* UAE users: 1100.

Amithlon and other emulator users: 500.

Potential AROS users: 800.

Users who still hang around the Amiga community, but who have no Amiga hardware, except in a cupboard, and use Windows or Linux: 3000.

(* Contributing: who use these systems on a daily basis as replacement Amigas, not just to play favourite Amiga games now and again.)

[AccyD]

Probably a couple of thousand active users, using a broad definition but not counting those who only use emulators to play retro games.

Unfortunately I'm one of these users who only uses an emulator at the moment. Having used an, A600 and A1200 in the past (sold the last one in Dec '98).

However, with the release of OS4 I'm planning to get an A1 - if/when OS4 is release........ ;-)

It should be this core of ex-users Aminga Inc target when the new OS is released - should give a steady boost to initial sales.

[mikeymike]

I identify Opera as IE6 because I couldn't get to some sites identifying as anything else.

You realise that completely undermines any effort to get web designers to test using any other web browser...

However I can't believe that Opera's default setting is to ID as IE.

If the daily activity of this site is to be taken into consideration, my best guess would be about 100 or so people left.

[bloodline]

Wayne wrote:
If the daily activity of this site is to be taken into consideration, my best guess would be about 100 or so people left.

I would say that it isn't probably much higher than that :-/

[Ryu]

meh are you asking to be flamed wayne? I think its increadibly big headed of you to use this site as some kind of gauge of amiga users still active.. but what do I know...

[selco]

The problem for amiga-users is the web-browser. I am a die hard Amiga-fan an the Amiga works 24h/day, at least as the routing machine for the home LAN. But when ever I want to surfe into the internet I use the PC. (Mozilla Firebird) If we had Firebird for Amiga/Pegasos things might look different...