Granted it is easier, much easier, to finally rest and say we are hobbyist'.
This is not so much of an issue for most - lets be honest most of us gave up waiting for that new piece of hardware a long long time ago.
But I can see why people are going to be upset. They want to invest their money into something other than Windoze. Lets be honest - this is mainly the reason why alot of us here tend to use AROS/Linux/BSD/MacOS. (Not that I have any figures to corrobarate this)
From the inception of the A1 to the Beta's of OS4 I have been waiting for nigh on a decade for something new and truly wish there was something. But alas no. I think the best we can hope for is the Amiga in a joystick where we can play Kick Off and 1000 other games 'till our hearts content.
I do feel sorry for all of those people who believed that there was a saviour for our platform and I really wished that Alan would be the man but following his comments my heart grows weary knowing full well that the man never had any intention of delivering on his promises. On further inspection - the man invested, financially, into OS4 so why would he now insist that it's a hobbyist OS. Has he given up? I think he has. But atleast we know that yet another man whose company promised us the world has let the community down - and no doubt profitted - yet again.
Wayne - we are hobbyists - Alan we are enthusiasts and until something better comes along we will stay that way it's just a shame you missed the boat. Lets hope something as positive as the original Amiga lies waiting sometime in the years to come and we embrace it never to let it die and go to computer heaven.
To Amiga. The first truly amazing desktop computer. Long may you live in emulation purgatory.
Long live Amiga.org