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It is what it is, one programmer per thousand users is a very high ratio.

Wait...is it true? There are only two programmers developing for AmigaOS 4.1? Do they have job position for hire?

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Doesn't 4.x use a UAE implementation to run classic apps just like AROS?  Endianess has nothing to do with an operating system.  

Power architecture was losing the race a more than a decade and a half ago, it was only a matter of time before the game consoles abandoned it as well.  Apple planned ahead, endianess was built on a few core routines and the rest of OS X was blind to it.  Endianess is a tempest in a teacup.

That's incorrect, though. CPUs are all different, that's why they went PPC in the first place (same with Apple). Apple went x86 after 10 years or whatever as PPC because they had no choice, they were unable to keep up with PCs' power and it was losing them marketability. Unlike AmigaOS, MacOS had the resources available to do a complete architecture change. We didn't, and still don't. They also were able to convince their fans that BSD with a shiny surface was the Next Big Thing because it was called MacOS X.

Different CPUs have different strengths and weaknesses. Look at Itanium several years ago with x86 - it was very fast in certain areas and completely useless everywhere else. Power chips from IBM are similar, but better - but you wouldn't put one in a console, for instance, because they're designed for servers.

The big reason for not going x86 was endianness. AmigaOS 4 uses AmigaOS 3 as a basis to allow backward compatibility. With x86 this couldn't happen, as AmigaOS 3 binaries would just crash because of the different endianness. To go x86 required a completely clean slate (such as what AROS had) which is why AROS relies on JanusUAE for its legacy compatibility, and that wasn't the objective, which was to update AmigaOS, not replace it.

This is why we use PPC and we can't go x86 - to do so means writing off the entire basis of what AmigaOS 4 is:  an update of AmigaOS.

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Yes, common sense doesn't play into a lot of what we do for hobbies.  I spend thousands of dollars on Amateur Radio stuff when I could just use my iPhone to talk to people.  If someone has 1800 quid and they want to spend it on the x1000, who am I to say it's wrong?  

The problem is that the number of people who see 1800 quid as ok is extremely small and the community continues to shrink...