My 0.02$ worth..
The Amiga OS has always run on certain reference hardware unlike Macs and PCs which are quite variable in their makeup of components, this is where it's strength comes from and it's major advantage IMO. Just like PC games need a LOT more power to achieve the same results as an xbox360 OS4 on a standard hardware platform with optimisation will outperform anything on similar spec of PC/Mac.
What we really need is a company with some forward thinking, like it or lump it but a spiritual successor to the A1000 is OS4+PS3 (picked this machine as it was the first machine out to compare with the PC/Mac/ST at the time and hence show people what really was the best and most powerful way to do it) Think about how powerful the sum total of the hardware is in the PS3, imagine a fully bespoke and optimized version of OS4 running on there, custom chips a plenty, different CPU to the competition, plays games better than any Mac and almost any PC money can buy and yet has already got a Linux distro on it which proves it can do anything a normal PC can if you add a mouse and keyboard.
Whether you like Sony or not is not really the issue, the point is there will never be new hardware manufactured for a real new Amiga you could buy in a shop. Given that Microsoft would never allow this on its 360 hardware and Wii is a pile of crap as far as its capabilities go that leaves just one console which already happens to have an OS aswell as being a kick-ass hardware console.
The Amiga was king because it was nicer to use than Windows 1/2/3 or classic Mac OS ONTOP of the fact it had hardware that could give the megadrive a run for its money in the games arena 3 years before the megadrive was even released. This is the combination that made the Amiga special, lovely OS + Kickass games + incredible multimedia powers that PC/Mac of the time (1985) couldn't even get close to let alone beat :-)
