90% of the people that have even heard of the Amiga have never heard of them let alone people that haven't heard of Amiga.
Every idea/company/product starts out small. Well OK, not every, but many. You have to start somewhere. Whether or not
n people have heard of MorphOS/Pegasos on June 3 2003 is not in itself a determining factor for success. Exposure grows fast if there's something interesting to say. MorphOS got a pretty good review overall at osnews.com, for example. Of course the rough spots were noted, but, coming from a reviewer with no Amiga background, it was actually more positive than I expected, as it's easy to shoot down "for all the usual reasons" products that aren't based on cheap, commodity hardware, etc. This exposure in the alt OS geek community is the logical next step beyond the Amiga starting point. One step at a time. No one expects Pegasos boards at WalMart next week.
It takes a lot of money to become a niche player in this business and they don't even have something to put them in that position.
That remains to be seen. The Pegasos board is a really neat device that has generated good feedback from different kinds of users, and Pegasos II should be a big step forward. Niche players don't have to have unlimited funding, just a product line that produces solutions for a sufficient number of people. The fact that Genesi is encouraging other OS ports to Pegasos and has other hardware devices and projects to leverage Pegasos development bodes well for the future, I'd say.
-- gary_c
