THE Amiga magic was mostly based on advanced,affordable graphics and to a lesser degree sound that was way ahead of the competition.
Newtek's Video Toaster sold more high-end Amigas than anything Commodore did.The Toaster was THE editing tool for small and medium projects,and even the yet to be named "pro-sumer" could afford the system.
Much of the Amiga's special appeal was that it could use an ordinary home television or an equally affordable monitor but its success was really tied to NTSC video.The switch to digital TV and the near universal display for computers pretty much takes care of all that.
Time marched on,and the original Amiga is as outdated as a Model A or T.
Nothing wrong with enjoying old "whatever" ,but neither 20 year old cars or computers are going to sell in the numbers desired by any big corporation.
We just need to recognize the reality that Amiga is now,and unless a new super-application that runs only on Amiga appears, a niche market.A niche market generally will have less competition,fewer suppliers,limited choices,and higher prices .
Another reality is that the lone programming genius cannot compete with commercial software corporations in anything but a niche market.The sheer volume of code for many new releases take one or more CDs or even a DVD!Who has the time to write 600MB of high-quality code?
I think all we could expect is what amigadave dreams of:Amiga OS for Mac(and maybe other)PPC computers,newer PPC/Freescale/non-x86 computers running Amiga-like OS,etc.
I'd like to see new PPC upgrade cards at much better prices so all the owners of existing Amigas could at least get AOS 4.0
