Now with that said, is it the transition to PPC that is necessary to get good apps, was the OS the problem, and can the apps have been improved with just a new OS?
Of course the move to a faster CPU will help writing up-do-date software that does the things we expect of a program nowadays (IE web browsers, graphics software, DTP etc.) but the programs won't write themselves :-)
I feel that somewhere along the road the focus on Amiga products changed from software to hardware - perhaps because it is easier to design a CPU card if someone has done it before you, than it is to write a word processor incorporating all the features people want. Especially if you're only one or two developers (like with most software released on Amiga lately) and you're competing against Microsoft's huge coder factory.
You make a good point, though. Even if the A1 will be fast and have a responsive OS, it's not much to long for if there won't be any good applications. Let's just keep our fingers crossed :-)
