I think that Eyetech should make a new stand and new policy to get concentrate to the latest technology that is still in development if they do that hardware wouldn't be out of date. That would mean that by the time the new Amiga hardware and software would be ready it would still be in current trend, that would be OK. But further more new technologies emerge every day the main stream now would be mobile devices and mobile multimedia. That means Amiga Inc. could be successful with their direction at mobiles. At the same time there are technologies that are not coverd yet, like stream data, Java, some other standards covered by software, and there is big hole covering wide range of external peripherial devices, their protocols and standards. There should be some Bluetooth and IrDA support, FireWire. Support of services such are special news sites with important informations about weather, traffic conditions, latest business updates, etc. Would't you like such reports waiting for you when you get up in the morning, I know I do.
Amiga hardware should be more modulised. Ther should be the same(at least) arhitecture like A4000 was, here I mean exchagable processor cards, motherboard with all supportive chipsets, exchangable doughterboard with different number of common buses like PCI, AGP, etc. ranged from those with 2 and up to at least 7 ports for big expansions. All other things should be as standard as possible. If this would be done that waywe would be covered from the smallest Amiga ever to the biggest one that is still possible.
But for now I suggest that we buy what we can to support further develpment so we could get there and enjoy Amiga computers in near and far future.Maybe there would be one gadget that would make a difference even compared to better hardware - there should be flash disks to be used as bootable devices and Amiga would be operational in les than few seconds, I thint that would hel the most. There is a wide range of applications which can't stand few minutes of inoperative states after accidental terminations or failures and had to be up and working as soon as possible. I think Amiga would get a lot of new users that way. MicroA1 would make a very nice car multimedia center with some 16:9 LCD touchscreen.
