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Should be more thankful we have such a healthy and varied selection of offerings for a platform that technically hasn't been made since the 90's in its original incarnation. A lot of the other niche platforms aren't so lucky, and the Amiga was never an 80% market share platform even at the pinnacle of its success, which was in the mid 90's.
The fact that we're even into the 4 digit numbers sales wise on the NG systems is still a bit astounding to me in this modern age of people viewing computers as not so much a hobby, but as appliances or a utility device.
That's looser talk. Defeatist attitudes like "be happy with what you got" are anti-progress. Shouldn't we just all be happy with the amount of rocks that can be shaped into a blade?
Healthy? 4-digit sales, as you put it, over a decade or so of Amiga NG systems is not something anyone would consider healthy. Just because there are hobby platforms in a worse position does not make ours healthy. And lets be honest, we are talking low 4-digits, though even if it were in the 9000 range it would still not be enough.
You are correct in one thing; Amiga never held a high percentage of the home computer market, and even less so in business. But they did have an install base of over 1M, and that made for a healthy ecosystem. That's what we should be aiming for, a healthy ecosystem. You know, an ecosystem where an update to a beta of a library isn't seen as major news.
