Snippets of it yes.
So in fact the answer is no, you don't know what went off.
We are talking about different people now with different ideas and goals and ambitions. You can't brand them (Hyperion) with the 'crap' that went off over the past 10 years. A.Inc no longer has anything to do with Amiga, Hyperion do, Hyperion are the ones taking the OS positively forward step by step.
No sir, I'm not talking about different people. And if you knew your history you would understand that.
It maybe a hobbyist market right now, but it certainly doesn't have to be this way forever.
I've tried to be gentle about this but it's clearly not sinking in. Right here we go:
Amiga, in all its flavours is currently and will forever be a hobbyist market. The desktop market is saturated, mature and there isn't either the resources or money required to make even a dent into it. It's sewn up.
Yes you are right this is probably the final chance for the Amiga,
I didn't say that. I said and I quote: "They are relics. Their one and only shot of making a viable niche for themselves as anything other than a hobby
ended a decade ago."
Emphasis mine. The Amiga is a hobby machine. Get used to it.
But regardless the world is still a place of opportunities, it can't be just PC and Apple forever - every industry has to have competition or there is stagnation and no innovation.
It's called open source. You might want to look into it. Software is more and more becoming a commodity as the market matures.
Hardware too has long since gotten to the stage where outside of ultra high end gaming, it's "good enough". Right now the current market is pushing toward lifestyle PCs along the same lines as the iMac. Sure there are still big box systems out there, but smaller boxes with enough power are becoming more and more commonplace and laptops are now selling faster than both combined because put simply: People don't want to have hulking great towers in their homes if they don't need to.
Regular people will look at a Windows box and Mac and even once in a blue moon a Linux box and compare them for their needs. If PC World for instance started selling X1000's tomorrow at £1500, with a fully ported and optimised OS4 running on it, how well would it compare to either of those three in reality?
Answers on the back of a postcard to the usual address.
With the right management team in place and dedication there is nothing at all stopping them from taking a bigger chunk.
Except being 20 years behind the times, on a dead end cpu architecture (for desktop use),costing about x10 what a comparable box offers outside of this market does, having a tiny fraction of the developers for even just the Linux kernel and zero investment. But beyond that, sure, every chance in the world.