I think you guys are missing a vital point.
If AOS4 was ported to X86 processors, do you really think they'd sell a lot more copies? Or would most PC users still continue to use Windows, OSX, and maybe Linux?
Who would they sell it to? Us, the fanatics willing to still support this market (and there really aren't many of us).
I stick by what I said
here.
However,
if you somehow managed to get the cash and manpower necessary together to do a port, there is a market for alternate OS's. But you would have to limit your hardware choices to something like Mini-ITX if you wanted to avoid the hardware support nightmare that BeOS/Zeta had.
As for how many copies you'd sell, honestly you would have to work damned hard to sell fewer copies than they are currently.
Cost of entry counts for a lot.
Further if PPCs are dead, why are Appliedv Micro and Freescale still introducing new models?
PPC's for the desktop are dead. What's being developed now is primarily for the embedded/telecoms sectors, with of course, the handful of models for the games console market.
I've said this before on this forum, but it bears repeating, the diversity of our hardware is not a negative thing its a positive.If you want an Amiga like OS on a specific platform, all you have to do is switch which variant your using.
Yes and no. Having choice is good, but the division of labour that was required to produce that choice isn't so much.
The only really important thing though is this: To enjoy what you have
