The guy on the show was right for the wrong reasons. Remember that it was recorded in the pre-A500/A2000 days, so the Amiga was less accessible in terms of price for home users and not yet fully suitable for business purposes.
WordPerfect, industry standard at the time, made it to the Amiga, and I seem to recall rumors in some of the American Amiga mags that MSWord(!) was under consideration for an Amiga port.
Users and developers responded. The Amiga absolutely got off the ground, but (mis)management brought it down.
