What is the future of Amiga?

[alexh]

As a big brand consumer item Amiga is dead. The people who remember the brand are now not of the age that buy computers regularly enough to warrant a revitalisation of the brand name. Not even Commodore (arguably a more widely known brand name) had any success revitalising their brand.

As a platform it is dead and the majority of clever people who used to develop for the platform have found more interesting things to do.

The reason we are here (on Amiga forums) is for one thing. Nostalgia. We like our classic Amiga's and remember the good old days.

[alexh]

I know plenty of folk aged 50+ that constantly buy new computers or laptops (PC's)

And who did they tell? Word of mouth sells hardware and 50+ people barely have 1-2 friends if any.

if it's just for the sake of nostalgia do some of the same people who voted no go on about looking forward to the continuing development of AROS, MorphOS and different processors to run as an Amiga, thats not nostalgia thats looking forward.

Nah, it's just curiosity. Like poking a dead animal.

I've been using classic Amiga's since the very start and still do to this very day, so as far as I'm concerned it's nothing to do with nostalgia as I always have and always will use my Amigas as my main computer system...

How the feck do you manage? The classic Amiga sucks balls when it comes to video, audio and interweb. I'd bet money you're telling porkies... that you use your Amiga a lot for recreational purposes but use a PC/Mac for day-2-day work & interweb.

[alexh]

I'm sick and tired of waiting (in vain) for other OS's to provide what I loved from the Amiga.

Heh, heh. I'm the other way around. I got sick and tired of waiting for AmigaOS to provide features which other OS's take for granted.

I wonder what the percentage of Amiga's never ever saw Workbench used ever? I bet it's in the high 90%+ range

[alexh]

Personally I see no evidence that youth has any advantage in intellect and it certainly hasn't any advantage in wisdom or common sense.

Since when have sales had anything to do with the intelligence of the buyer? Do you not think sales are influenced a lot by networking? And that that older people do less networking? It's a huge generalisation on my part and I'm sure you can find exceptions. Perhaps this generation will buck the trend?

That said older people have more money and tend to steal media far less (possibly cos they are incapable?) and so they still have a good market input... (just look at eBook readers!).