@mantisspider
The difference between a Teron and a Mac? From an AmigaOS technical view, you could actually say they're the same thing: they're both hardware, and they both need AmigaOS drivers written for them to have AmigaOS run on them.
It's the same basic architecture, but different chipsets and components. (Plus that the Macs have entered the 21st century with DDR-SDRAM and whatnot)
Kronos is spot on.
Just like with Terons/"AmigaOnes", or whatever purely hypothetical "Amiga licensed" hardware that might appear in the future, AmigaOS drivers need to be written. Those don't "just appear" any easier just because some vendor decided to sell some units to a restricted "Amiga" market.
Macs are of course an (or THE) obvious target platform for a desktop/home user PPC operating system without any hardware "of its own", like AmigaOS4+. The sales of one single Mac/PowerBook model/configuration exceeds the total number of all Terons (as well as Pegasoses, for those who want to flame from a "campist" perspective) sold by several orders of magnitude. The hardware is already in use out there, in vast numbers when compared to what's "Amiga licensed". There's a healthy second hand market. You can buy the hardware practically anywhere. On a dirt cheap G3 PowerMac/Book without the raw power to run MacOSX quickly enough, I'd prefer AmigaOS4 any day over Linux with GNOME2/KDE3.
These days Mac hardware is for all practical purposes not any more "closed" than your everyday x86 motherboard. With Apple's own open-source Darwin + drivers, not to mention the Mac/PPC branches of Linux, *BSD and OpenDarwin, we're talking more about "porting" than "reverse engineering".
Someone mentioned that Apple would have something against AmigaOS running on their hardware. Of course they wouldn't. They'd get to sell some more Macs, and each new Mac comes with MacOS anyway. Apple would of course have everything against buying a license from AInc to sell Macs with dongled firmware as "Amigas" bundled with AmigaOS and enduser support, but that harebrained policy of AInc's simply must be reconsidered. Hopefully AInc will one day remember that there no longer is any "Amiga hardware", that they don't design or specify hardware, and that they can't make sales of their own software product (AmigaOS) dependent on fantasies about control over another market that's entirely independent from AInc, namely the hardware market.
Someone mentioned the DMCA. It's not applicable to writing drivers for Mac hardware, even if reverse engineering actually would be involved. No copyright protection mechanisms would be circumvented. Besides, the DMCA is an American law.
Anyway, regardless of what happens with AInc's "let's pretend there's a need for Amiga hardware" policy, we won't see AmigaOS for any Mac in version 4.0. If nothing changes with regards to said policy, we'll never see AmigaOS for Macs, or any hardware other than what Eyetech might find for that matter.
