Why was there nothing after os 3.9?

[psxphill]

The various owners/ people who have claimed ownership have only themselves to blame for not making money on AmigaOS software.
 
The way I saw the situation was like a several people tugging at a roast chicken in different directions, and it ending up on the floor in several pieces that no-one could enjoy.

That is what happens when people get hungry, but it doesn't mean that without the fighting there would have been enough money to go around or even sustain one of the companies for long.
 
Some people will carry on doing it for love, some people will carry on doing it because they don't want to let go, others will carry on because they don't know what else to do. But Amiga software hasn't been the most profitable way to spend your time for decades.

[psxphill]

CBM just tried to sell the old hardware without investment

That isn't entirely true. They were investing, just not in the right things.
AAA was started in 1988 and dragged on and on. It's been said that AAA didn't get enough investment, but IMO it shouldn't have gotten any investment at all.
 
AGA was done in a year by a couple of engineers who decided that AAA was going nowhere and that something else needed to be done.
 
If AGA had been started in 1988 then commodores future would be different.

[psxphill]

Commodore could not have picked a more ironic time to go out of business because it was when they were the absolute strongest in a very new, very lucrative market.

Commodore never controlled their destiny after Jack left, it was just luck for the most part. Newtek took them surprise, Commodore didn't have a clue why they were selling so many A2500's when the A3000 had just come out. Commodore management refused to produce the A2631 to replace the A2630 & A2091 that they were shipping in the A2500.
 
Bottom line is they picked the wrong case for the A3000.

[psxphill]

That's got SFA to do with "luck". That's what you call "stupid".

It's stupid when you aren't successful, it's dumb luck when it works.
 
 Commodore survived on dumb luck for a long time. It was only really Commodore UK that ever marketed anything successfully. Even then the batpack in 1989 was the pinnacle of cool, it went down hill from there.