From my viewpoint:
The hardware is unaffordable, and the compatibility reports that I have seen are not encouraging. It is more difficult than it should be to do OS3->OS4 ports, much more hassle than to do eg. OS3->MOS ports. Some kind of AmigaOne emulator so that OS4 can be run under x86 would mean a lot more people could run it. And there's a lot of bugs in OS4 yet to be fixed, and it still doesn't implement the full OS3.9 API (eg. the "effect" command in Installer, the Alert() function, etc.). Plus it seems bloated, I read somewhere 96Mb minimum RAM just to get the thing booted, that's crazy!
I do want it to succeed. It's just the unaffordability and technical shortcomings that are holding me back from buying one. Plus the vitriolic hostility towards OS3 users that is shown by some OS4 users and developers is a definite drawback, why would one want to join a user community like that?
