If Amiga Inc. were to partner with Commodore...new Commodore-Amiga machines might still be possible. Amiga just wouldn't have a parent company. It's even not impossible that a Commodore-Amiga 6000 happen--if they were to go the way of custom chipsets, or just a continuation of what was.
What would you think if the two partnered?
Very bad idea right now. Today's incarnation of Commodore(s) is very off the scale regards to Amiga Inc.
The current overall market trend and preferences for hardware is very much upmarket: high performance components. This is thanks to the ever-booming popularity of high-quality computer gaming these days and also computers are more available than never before. And this constrains making custom chipsets or any other parts (indirectly refering to countzero's post).
So far, even the moderately successful tech companies wouldn't make custom parts from quasi-scratch these days. I think the only convincing way to make custom parts for them (Amiga Inc. or any tech companies with similar status to Amiga Inc.) is to make a great use of relatively old hardware resources vis-a-vis respecting today's standard.
As Amiga and other similar companies is doing very slow, here's one problem with the majority of computer consumers right now: they have a relatively narrow view on computers, whether they be preferring high-end products or something that is darn familiar.
Enough ranting, hope this makes sense to anyone. Forgive me if I said something wrong or very off. Thank you.
