My other thought is that since technology has become so small, it would be relatively easy to produce an A1200 the size of a mobile phone that could be plugged into a regular monitor. It would be cheap, and there's a huge range of pre-existing software that could be miniaturised - how small could they make a disc with the storage capacity of a floppy? A quarter the size of a postage stamp?
I think they've already done something like that with the Atari, so why not the Amiga?
The Minimig FPGA thing is a step in this direction. Why bother with floppies when the internet is available today, and floppy disks are beginning to become scarce supply? You can use transflash FLASH standard which is about 1/4 USA postage stamp size and comes in pretty big capacities (I think I've seen 1GB) for cell phones.
Why not Amiga? Maybe the right oportunity hasn't come together yet. Those TV joystick things are kindof neat, but you need a good selection of built-in games for them to sell well, and you need the circuit to be very cheap. If the Minimig is cleaned up to work well and a CPU core can be licensed for a single-chip board like happened with the CommodoreOne, then this can happen. It may still be a little early for that, but it'd be cool to see it happen before the fad burns out. Some of the Amiga games may make it tricky though if they need a mouse for control, as I doubt we;d see a joystick bundled with a mouse and I'm not sure we'd see people buyig PS2 or USB mice to add to such things for those games.
