>There are some 10^4 times more units of one single Mac >model (like the "iLamp") already in use out there than there >are currently used licensed Eyetech-sold Teron boards, and >more are made and sold every day, not to mention the >second hand market.
Your point being? Mac hardware is branded uniquely Apple through its design.
Moreover, this would require us to support this hardware with drivers for the onboard hardware which would effectively see us wade through LinuxPPC source-code as Apple certainly won't release chipset documentation to us.
All of this for a completely uncertain return.
Voodoo economics at its best.
>There are probably 3 - 10 times as many people who publicly >protest against the restrictions imposed on AmigaOS and its >hardware base as there are current Teron board users.
Pure speculation on your part. You have no numbers to back up this claim.
Given the fact that AmigaOS was always sold with the hardware when the hardware was still being produced, I doubt this very much.
>There's probably twice the amount of discontinued Pegasos >1s out there, with a new model around the corner,
Nonsense. No more than 600 Pegasos I units were ever produced and the AmigaOne sales have already overtaken that number since quite some time.
Moreover, I doubt very much that a sufficient number of those people would be willing to buy a copy of OS 4 to merit the development costs.
>both arguably better marketed to a wider audience and >cheaper than the Terons.
You are talking about a discontinued product and a product which only exists in the form of an announcement.
If you think I'm going to bet the shop on that kind of nonsense, dream on.
>Just to put some perspective on things.
>It all comes down to cost/profit/volume analysis.
>Maybe all this is a scheme to make such analysis easier, by >ignoring the volume factor...
You lack key data such as:
1. development cost of OS 4
2. per unit license fee to Amiga
3. cost to support an additional platform
In short, your economics are way off and your conclusion particularly misguided and frankly, based on nothing but gut feeling rather than solid facts.
