First off congrats to the MorphOS team as I've tried it on a friends system and its a very polished & professional OS; however, that being said,
From a similar thread over at amigawotld.net:
Considering most MOS users I know have at least 2 or more registrations that's hopefully close to 1000 users. Now don't get me wrong this can only be good news but I honestly thought there'd be alot more. So much for the 'cheap hardware will bring the masses' crowd.
It appears there's a lot more than cheap entry into ones decision in choosing an alternative OS.
I see it in different manner: without cheap hardware there would be less users.
