Amount of MorphOS copies sold

[takemehomegrandma]

For those who doesn't know; there is a never-ending thread over at MorphZone.org where people reports their newly acquired MorphOS serial numbers.

Koszer made a graph based on that info, and it's kind of interesting:





(To future MorphOS users - please post your serial number in the MorphOS counter thread! )

[nicholas]

~1100 users?

Much less than I'd thought there would be. Very disappointing!

[HammerD]

~1100 users?

Much less than I'd thought there would be. Very disappointing!

I would hope it would be more, too.  You can bet that the active base is less than the total amount of licenses sold, as a certain percentage of the early licenses would no longer be in use.  

Also there are users who hold more than one license.

[wawrzon]

disapiointing? given the amount of active members, poll entries and downloads i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd. and aros scoring under 100 serious users atm, mos of them devs themselves. i even think mos registration thread exaggerate the actual numbers as many registered might drop it by the time. realistic number should be divided by half at least i think.

[Justone]

~1100 users?

Much less than I'd thought there would be. Very disappointing!

There are even less users i think as most of them have 2 or 3 registered computers.

[nicholas]

disapiointing? given the amount of active members, poll entries and downloads i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd. and aros scoring under 100 serious users atm, mos of them devs themselves. i even think mos registration thread exaggerate the actual numbers as many registered might drop it by the time. realistic number should be divided by half at least i think.

Yes, disappointing.

I doubt the numbers will increase, more likely that they will decrease over time.

Disappointing indeed.

[HammerD]

disapiointing? given the amount of active members, poll entries and downloads i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd. and aros scoring under 100 serious users atm, mos of them devs themselves. i even think mos registration thread exaggerate the actual numbers as many registered might drop it by the time. realistic number should be divided by half at least i think.

Well obviously all of us would like higher numbers for all groups, OS 3.x, OS4.x, MorphOS, AROS.

After all, many programs run on all the above platforms, so more users for any group can only help other groups and interest in general.

[Iggy]

Yes, disappointing.

I doubt the numbers will increase, more likely that they will decrease over time.

Disappointing indeed.

As its been increasing over time I expect it to continue.
Once Powerbook support is introduced, Amiga users looking for a laptop will have that option.
With that and possible Apple G5 support I can only see the user base increasing.

[Pyromania]

No way to count the cheap bastards that don't mind rebooting every 30 minutes.

[Khephren]

"i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd"

 I think you are seriously underestimating the numbers of 68K users, especially if you are counting forum posts/polls. France, germany, scandinavia and spain all have thriving intenet communities. Many of them don't post on english forums.

[nicholas]

As its been increasing over time I expect it to continue.
Once Powerbook support is introduced, Amiga users looking for a laptop will have that option.
With that and possible Apple G5 support I can only see the user base increasing.

Licenses yes, new users no.

[nicholas]

"i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd"

 I think you are seriously underestimating the numbers of 68K users, especially if you are counting forum posts/polls. France, germany, scandinavia and spain all have thriving intenet communities. Many of them don't post on english forums.

I'd guesstimate that the number of active 68k users outnumbers OS4, Morphos and AROS users combined.

[takemehomegrandma]

disapiointing? given the amount of active members, poll entries and downloads i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd. and aros scoring under 100 serious users atm, mos of them devs themselves.

I'm with you here.

MorphOS probably has 2x the amount of AROS and OS4 users combined (and I'm not saying that this graph reflects the amount of users, only registrations *sold*).

If the numbers seems disappointing to some people, I think they may have had an unrealistic view of the overall "state of the nation". And it may have been because I had a more "realistic" view of the Amiga situation in 2011 (there is *no real market*) that I think this graph is *excellent*!

And you can read out a change in the trend as well; like how *the slope* of the curve chanbes after the Mac support was introduced. Cheap and easily obtainable hardware (although still PPC)!

[Iggy]

Licenses yes, new users no.

I am a relatively new user, having only adopted MOS once Powermac support was introduced. I have several contacts that would like to use MorphOS to develop software under that I am working with to set up hardware. None of these people are former MorphOS licensees.

Simply stated, there are more MorphOS users than there are OS4 users or AROS users. And you yourself know why, its a better product.

However, I too believe there are more 68K users than stated, and there are a lot more former 68K Amiga users, so the potential base to grow from is there (as long as we don't have to count on Franko).

Why so negative Nicholas? I know you've used MorphOS and have stated you'd prefer it over AOS4.
Can't you tell by that graph that the rate of license purchases is up?
Just from that you can infer that there are new users as a stagnant user base would result in a relatively flat graph.

[HammerD]

I'm with you here.

MorphOS probably has 2x the amount of AROS and OS4 users combined (and I'm not saying that this graph reflects the amount of users, only registrations *sold*).

I can tell you right now that it doesn't.