In 1992, PC users have MS Word, MS Excel, Adobe Photoshop.
And everything You could do on the Amiga You could do on cheaper PC.
And since 1993, even games were much better on PC.
Yes, it was Commodores fault, that the Amiga "died". The problem is: Amiga fans never mattered in terms of a market force. They were too few, even in 1990, to make a large international corporation interested. While Commodore was small and trying to get brand recognition it was sufficient to sell a relatively small number of PET computers (or KIM-1 for that matter). But in 1990 they compared themselves to the PC market, which was exploding. Giving PC R&D one million seemed to be a much better investment than to give half of it to Amiga developers.
The thing is that the culture of home computing has shifted from a technical hobby to a media consumption passtime. Big media wants big money and they want total control.
The PC is chreap, because they sell so many of them. We won' t see any alternative plattform with a smaller audience that will be competatively priced.
If you want something like the Amiga to happen again. You will need radically low prices and you will have to survive on a razor thin profit margin. This is *NOT* our fault. It is however a major turnoff for most companies. Charging 200$ for a case like CUSA or 2000$ for an X1000 is not about starting a reboot, but about selling a few units to diehard lovers, who are neither young nor dependent on the functionality of their newest toy.
