I've had a read around the morphos.net site out of interest, but not really found an answer to my question, and please, no flaming/bitchy comments. What does MorphOS offer in particular that attracts people to it?
Speaking for myself, it wasn't so much MorphOS as it was the company. With both operating systems offering really good features, I started looking at what future each of them had/has.
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last thing that I want to do is go through another Amiga failure. I've seen enough of them and I'm sick of the whole thing. The decision then was which one had a more sound vision for the future and I felt that Genesi had more going for them than the people involved with AmigaOS 4.
This isn't to say that I think that the AmigaOne or OS 4 is bound to failure, but looking at the bigger picture, I think they're going to have a harder climb upwards. Eyetech really need to get costs down because the current price is going to alienate a lot of potential customers from the product. Hyperion are anxious to get on with other things and that leaves Amiga Inc, whom I feel simply don't have the resources to give AmigaOS 4 the presence it needs beyond the community.
Genesi, on the other hand, have made just about every show out there.. Have a cheaper product and have a good vision of the future (and they're not afraid to tell you about it either. That's another plus in my book, because I'm sick and tired of all the "we have plans, but we can't go in to details" garbage too.)
Anyhoo, that's my dollars worth.
