Ive always thought that one of the contributing factors to the Amiga's downfall and developers like Bullfrog saying stuff like that was the fact that Amiga users have a history of not spending money on their machines to upgrade them and PC users tended to do the opposite. There were plenty of expansions (hard drives and accelerators alike) that people just didnt buy back in the day. I think they were seen as only being needed if you wanted to do "serious" stuff on your Amiga.
Equally and I dare say more so, Commodore (as usual) were to blame. They should have made the A1200 sooner and of a higher spec. It should have had a hard drive as standard and a better motherboard (Better IDE ports, a true graphics expansion slot that redirects ALL displays when used and upgrades the actual graphics chipset rather being a bolt on like currect GFX cards, full 68030 or 020 CPU and SIMM sockets for example). Commode seemed to be of the frame of mind that those specs are not for a "low end" Amiga but our beloved platform was a light weight in an increasingley heavy weight world
Im sure like many of my fellow Amiga.org readers you think how the world would be different had the Amiga continued to dominate. If I have an Amiga I bought delivered to work, all the guys who know their stuff (ie not the Playstation generation!
lol ) come over and reminiss and I said to them once "guys, had this one the fight, we wouldnt be supporting just one OS and hardware platform
". Oh well, we can always wonder how it could have been.
