At the end of the day I dont think it matters much. It seem fairly obvious that Hyperion dont want to compete but rather support thier small faction of supporters. It's a shame that theyve essentially given our once beloved Amiga OS a death sentence (as much as some people would like to think otherwise there's no real attraction in something that's essentially industry standard hardware with a comparitively weak cpu with a huge pricetag unless the brand name is important to you for the vast majority of people), but at least there's other choices now as well.
If Hyperion are happy to target the same audience willing to tollerate such decisions then good luck to them (although I am curious just how long the same group of people will keep buying new hardware for OS4(a look at sigs on forum sites show the numbers of OS4.x machines sold is significantly more than the amount of actual users)).
I say this with a slightly heavy heart and as a fan of all the "amiga" options. The sheer volume of threads over the years, and the large amount of responses to these threads shows what a large chunk of the potential market wants, but unlike most businesses they seem content to ignore the majority and continue with a route that appears to have little chance of increasing numbers of users.
