forgive me:
i wish i had good, modern, inexpensive hardware to run my nice new copy of aros on... oh wait... i can get that anywhere.
sorry ive always been against os4 for just this reason. i was proven wrong in that it was actually released. but as for whether it actually matters, so far; no.
releasing even a fully featured mature and solid os for a tiny number of machines really does nothing for us. from what ive heard os4 is quite good, but if noone has anything to run it on why bother.