Is this the problem? (not related to C= USA at all!)

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Again (I love these threads which pop up once a month or so)... The thing that is always forgotten was that the Amiga wasn't really revolutionary for its time, rather it simply solved the technological issues of the day in a revolutionary and efficient way. If you were to make a "True"(tm) successor to the 1985 Amiga 1000, you would need to solve the technological problems of today.

Computing requirements now are almost fundamentally different to what they were 26 years ago, let us make a list of what a user needs from a computing device now;

1. Mobility
2. Connectivity
3. Compatibility
4. Usability
5. Low power consumption

If you work through those you will probably end up with something not unlike an iPad... Hopefully better, but fundamentally the same...

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Not everyone requires an amiga to have...

1. Mobility - Not Required
2. Connectivity - (To what, the net) Not Required
3. Compatibility - (Again to What, PC/Mac software) Not Required
4. Usability - Well a computer that's unusable would be pretty pointless
5. Low power consumption - (Plenty of electricity in my house) Not Required

Oh well 1 out of 5 is not bad... :lol:

Then you don't want a "New Amiga", you just want an old Amiga with upgrades.

But I submit that you are far from a normal user (to be fair none of us here are normal users), that is why Apple sell millions of devices and Commodore is gone and all efforts to resurrect the "Amiga" have and will fail.

A nice related story:
When Steve Jobs returned to Apple after 10 years away, he was proudly ushered into a room at the Apple HQ filled will perfect condition examples of all products Apple had produced since the Apple I... He was apparently unimpressed and told the executive to give them all away to local museums... And demanded that Apple only look forward and never look back.