iMacMiga wrote:
As far as Gateway-Amiga goes they wanted to make Amiga into a viable x86 platform way back in the 90s, using the Amiga ideal to power a totally new computer platform. The Amiga community (or at least a large part of it) blindly insisted they stick to PowerPC, which was too expensive and was outside the areas Gateway wanted to explore (being a x86 PC maker). I think in the end Gateway gave up and basically told the community to shove it, mostly out of frustration at not being able to push the Amiga platform forward.
I think you are being naive if you think a big PC vendor will bow to the will of the (by then) nearly nonexistant amiga community. I do not have proof but I do believe the rumor that it was Microsoft the one that told Gateway to get rid of the Amiga IP. As you have said, Gateway would have become another Apple (hardware vendor with nice propietary OS) and M$ could not allow that.
