Personally I feel many of the people here are too invested in the old and not in the new.. It's 2011 here folks, the original AmigaOS died long ago. The current AmigaOS and clones may have a lot in common the way they work, etc. They provide emulation (albeit slick fast emulation) of the old hardware and software but they just aren't the original, no matter who's doing it etc.. Amiga Corp. (pre-Commodore one) was the real deal it was an American startup, way before they tried selling it to Atari and Commodore to survive.
Honestly, you folks who think powerpc's are the way to go, or any one processor including PowerPC and Intel aren't reading the right tea leaves.. When I think of an OS now I thinki of virtualization, I think of the computing cloud etc.. Thinks are way fast enough via emulation on ARM and others to emulate and run even the original OS virtually and emulate the hardware properly (no magic there). So why are we even discussing which OS etc.
The Amiga community has to get over itself once and forever here, we are arguing over something that won't startup again no matter how much money is thrown at it, at least the way it was done in the past.. Let's just be positive about whatever comes out.. Most people in the USA if I asked them what a AmigaOS 4.x or Hyperion or the Amiga was they'd point me back to wikipedia or Commodore.
Does it really matter what the company known as Commodore USA does ? You guys are fighting over OSes and hardware long since surpassed (even with the latest offerings)..
Time to be supportive of whoever is left (including Hyperion and Commodore USA). I am guessing it wont impact on any sales one bit, because many people here in the USA don't really want anything with a powerPC chip in it one bit, unless it does ARM and is mobile they don't care.. I have said this once and i'll say it again, the world is now processor agnostic as long as it's fast enough for what they want and many now want to run this on a 6-8 hour battery if not better..
