It wouldn't and it couldn't. Computers and computing today are hardly anything more than sum_generic_persons tool for getting on the internet, typing an e-mail, looking at porn, editing their photos (because now, any idiot is a DIY "professional" photographer) and *maybe* editing their home videos. At work, they're still content using horrible technology with shoddy overpriced software written to maintain their books and inventory - all completely flawed, non-user friendly and prone to millions of dollars worth of mistakes and inaccuracies. Hardly any company is safe from that typical business-related scenario either despite the fact superior computers, OS's and software have come and gone.
The Mac and its spinoffs are the closest thing we have to anything "exciting" computing wise and frankly - they're going to be holding that reign for quite a while.
Now that the Democruds have gotten their way once again, the Grubment (FCC and its tangled throngs) will dumb the internet down even further - making that aspect of computing even less compelling than it's been, year after year, since the early 2000's. ALL of the mainstream social sites are proving this right now in fact. Look at MySpace and Facebook. Horseshit Twitter-like content is what it's quickly becoming. Pics of peoples pets and kids. Asinine status updates too, as if anyone really cares about most peoples petty lives and lifestyles. "Hey, look what I just bought from Wal-Mart". "The Cowboys are better than 'insert some other stupid team here'". Yep - there's your future of computing 
Blech.
It's all over buddy. The mainstream has ruined yet another aspect of electronica. I don't see anything coming out in the near future computing wise that either hasn't already been done, much less worth get excited about. If any platform or truly unique or superior system came about (again), it'd be squashed for all the reasons stated above or not gain enough of the mainstreams acceptance for it to be relevant and profitable for anyone, for very long anyway. We should all know by now that anything "cool" doesn't last for long. Especially in America. It's almost always replaced by the un-friendly or otherwise inferior ware. It's just the way it is unfortunately. In just about every aspect of industry too. I can't think of a single thing that's made better today than yesteryear. This stuff is designed to break so you have to repurchase it AND/OR the genital pubic is too slow to realize that they've been made guinea pigs by these consumer electronics companies or at the very least, have become individual R&D "departments" w/ the privilege of paying for said status.
Totally free forming holographic displays that were worked on and put to use in 80's arcades (not this glasses wearing "3D" crap) would have or would be nice if perfected, but you can forget about that. Looks like the trend is going toward that multi-screen Nintendo DS technology for 3D instead. At least you don't have to wear silly overpriced glasses for it though.
Damn, that outlook sure is bleak! But it really does reflect what's going on by and large. And naturally, this is just my $.02. Not even worth that much outside of the choir, which frankly, I don't give a damn about. :laughing:
I very much agree with you here, and this is pretty much the reason why I can't get excited about either Wintel or Mac computers....been there, done it. Do I really care about tiny little improvements to OS from massive hikes in computer power from new CPUs/GPUs? Nope less is more and Amiga KS/Wb 1.1/1.2 on A1000 proves just how little progress we have made in the last quarter of a century thanks to people like Apple and Microsoft 'winning'*
The only mild interest I have is the technology inside the PS2/Gamecube at the time and Xbox360/PS3 today because of how they use non PC architecture to achieved greater price/performance on launch day than a £1500 'gaming PC'.
IF, and this is 99% unlikely, Amiga ever came back it would have to do what Microsoft did when designing the Xbox 360 motherboard to a pittance of a price. Ironic that Microsoft are the company that have shown it IS possible even today to use an off the shelf GPU from ATI and combine it with a weird and wonderful CPU and motherboard architecture to slamdunk gaming PC's price/performance on launch day by a factor of 3:1 isn't it?
However even consoles have now hit the wall with their photorealistic A/V and yet the future apparently is standing infront of a camera being a dick or using some low-tech motion sensing bollox with childish graphics as per the Wii. The future is here and they can shove it :madashell:
But we will never see this kind of intelligently alternatively designed product labelled as 'Amiga' and that is a fact, technology has nothing to do with it, just that sort of vision and intelligence required is missing from all existing Amiga hardware manufacturers, who are merely producing OS4 compatible motherboards in my book NOT Amigas...or even worse Wintel rubbish from CommodoreUSA
*wakes up to sound of alarm clock ringing*
