Amount of MorphOS copies sold

[HammerD]

~1100 users?

Much less than I'd thought there would be. Very disappointing!

I would hope it would be more, too.  You can bet that the active base is less than the total amount of licenses sold, as a certain percentage of the early licenses would no longer be in use.  

Also there are users who hold more than one license.

[HammerD]

disapiointing? given the amount of active members, poll entries and downloads i would count somewhere about 300 active users for os4, about the same for advanced 68k, not counting unexpanded/gaming crowd. and aros scoring under 100 serious users atm, mos of them devs themselves. i even think mos registration thread exaggerate the actual numbers as many registered might drop it by the time. realistic number should be divided by half at least i think.

Well obviously all of us would like higher numbers for all groups, OS 3.x, OS4.x, MorphOS, AROS.

After all, many programs run on all the above platforms, so more users for any group can only help other groups and interest in general.

[HammerD]

I'm with you here.

MorphOS probably has 2x the amount of AROS and OS4 users combined (and I'm not saying that this graph reflects the amount of users, only registrations *sold*).

I can tell you right now that it doesn't.

[HammerD]

OK, what started, and ended, as a 5 page thread *a year ago*, has now grown to 17 pages, that's 11 pages containing nothing but upset emotions against the probability of MorphOS having more users than OS4. I actually find this hilarious, astonishing, and I guess you can learn something every day about the mindset of some people in this "community". What I have learned from this thread, is:

1. MorphOS registration statistics are utterly worthless as a base for user number estimations (estimations != facts), since everyone knows that MorphOS users has piles of old Macs with registered copies of MorphOS lying around their houses.

Why do you think so? I think it's pretty clear the registration numbers are sequential.  So it should be accurate.  If it is true that people have copies of registered MorphOS copies "lying around" not in use then the actual active usage of registered MorphOS is lower.  But I do highly doubt that many people have copies "lying around" since the price is over 100 Euros per registered copy, and for much of the time was closer to 150.   Sure, there may be some people, but I would doubt there would be "piles of old Macs with registered copies".

What is unknown is the number of *unregistered* users who are *actively* using MorphOS.  That number could be less, equal to, or higher than the registered users.

Higher numbers for AROS, MorphOS, and AmigaOS 4 are good for all of the "community".  If there was 10,000 MorphOS users that would probably mean more developers writing apps that would (fairly easily) re-compile for 68k, AROS, and AmigaOS4, so it would only benefit all of us.