Yeh I'v also held this view for years. The Easy-to-use-but-powerful-and-rewarding approach Apple use now is very similar to Amiga.
I *hate* the new Dock though. Sure it looks pretty but it's wholly impractical. It takes up too much room (in comparison to the old one, and yeh I know you can change the size but it's still annoying), you can't tell what's running because the white dots are wiped out by all the background noise from the reflections. Thankfully I found a hack to enable the simplified version (used if you have the dock on the left or right) at the bottom, so I did that. It looks way nicer now
As far as Gateway-Amiga goes they wanted to make Amiga into a viable x86 platform way back in the 90s, using the Amiga ideal to power a totally new computer platform. The Amiga community (or at least a large part of it) blindly insisted they stick to PowerPC, which was too expensive and was outside the areas Gateway wanted to explore (being a x86 PC maker). I think in the end Gateway gave up and basically told the community to shove it, mostly out of frustration at not being able to push the Amiga platform forward. It could have lead to great things - Gateway have a large leverage in the PC industry and could have put up a decent fight. They'\d have become another Apple, with their own platform and their own OS, and they have seen the advantage then of what Apple have seen now when they transitioned to Intel - if you can do a lot of stuff really well in your OS *and* run Windows for the stuff that people can't run on your OS you are in a win-win scenario. I mean for gods sakes Apple Intel computers are common fodder at companies like Microsoft because they are good products hardware-wise (for work at least
), they run the software they need, and also their closest competitors software as well
