If you want to get my two cents: It's probably not more worth than the two cents I just gave you... The reason is quite simple: There is no reasonably modern and reasonably large software library, and there is no reasonable hardware either. Most certainly, you can say the same for Os 4.0, which is basically the reason why I do not care much about either. Sorry for that, but that's simply as it is. For anything modern, I have Linux. For anything old, I have the 68K. But I have no use of an Operating system for exotic hardware and no software basis.
agreed. paying for these products is an act of support and should be clearly seen as such, and therefore im perfectly fine with my amigas and what they are capable of, but i will always need an contemporary computing solution and since no amigalike system offers me that, they do not count as an option.
Linux. Yes, really. You pay nothing, you get updates forever, it runs on modern hardware, and has a huge software library, does everything I want.
aros, if you want an amiga inspired system, but nicolas of course knows that;) on the other hand i must admit aros is not a complete solution, like linux, its more like work in progress and a playground for programmers, but this very much applies to every amiga like system.
To be frank, it would also cost me nothing, but that's because our university has a Dreamspark contract with M$. But anyways - it's not the Os of my choice, Win8 even less so. It's consistently unusable.
this is not a valid argument, windows is not free for general public. but i must beg to differ about 8.x usability. i used to think like that prior to purchase, but it is as good as xp or better. its a little inconsistant concept i agree, but who cares..
Somebody has to earn some money for all the time spend developing it. For both "PPC branches". That's all appreciated and understood. However, that still does not make me understand the business model behind it. It is basically a model from 30 years ago: Create a custom hardware ("home computer") with its own software and user basis, and hope that it creates enough attraction. Basically, you sold a hardware and hope that the users care for the software. However, this type of business died a long time ago. Hardware does not count anymore. Today, you provide a software for free, or no software at all, and provide a service around it, or around a web-service, and charge for that. Hardware is unimportant. HTML is important, browsers are important.
again im not a fan of microsoft, but the surface i am typing now from has saved my bottom at the beginning of the year when i was going to italy for three months of scolarship. it is a tablet but with features of a full blown notebook, it has wacom preasure sensitive pen to draw freely, it has reasonable connectivity and didnt cost more than a mid range notebook. i think it is an example that hardware counts even today. probably even the life cycle is similar as in the last millenium, just you cannot develop it in cellar anymore.
