The total market for AmigaOS right now is the retrocomputing market. There are much more modern operating systems out there, including Linux which can be downloaded for free, which are much better choices for desktop and embedded applications.
the amiga market is what you make it to be. its only retro if nothing new gets added or noone steps up to lead it on. you cant do any serious buisness from a retromarket though, so its either growing or dying.
this entire thread seriously lacks any form of visions. its a good thing that most companies look for oppotunities opposed to you guys.
as for window, linux and macos to more modern is only correct to the extend that amigaos doesnt get any further development. with any even minor backing the amigaos holds a lot of strengths that can easily put it on par in all areas an surpass them in others.
as for them being better dekstop and embedded systems is entirely incorrect. neither of them really fits on embedded systems at all. windows even has to do a completly specialized version for it.
The only product I see a possibility of comercial success would be a DTV type
that wouldnt be much of an amiga product. there is plenty of room for the operating system on a wide host of different hardware. good thing you arnt the one trying to move amiga forward, eh?
I hate to be so negative, but I think that's the state of the market and the brand name.
then dont be so negative. you dont seem to have any arguments for your negativity except your view from your bedroom window.
The Amiga as a brand has become a laughing stock.
where exactly? the only place its a laughing stock is among those few with a different agenda. the amiga brand seems very strong among common people as well as most enthusiasts.
amiga to those companies and people i meet, is simplicity, elegance, fun and power. only few people know about the problems resolving around the amiga, and the laughing stock seems to be the idiot fans and nay sayers, with their pathetic limited views and their rediculous conspiracies. not the amiga itself. these forum posts are the only laughable thing really.
But I seriously doubt it would sell for anything even approaching $100,000
based on what facts? i think you could easily add a zero to that. the commodore brand sold for $32 million in 2004, so amiga would easily sell for 1 million.
The games industry could leverage an Amiga brand license for retro releases on either modern platforms like PSP
and where would that bring us? exactly nowhere. at best it would be an income, but it wouldnt in any way drive amigaos forward or secure any kind of viable future use.
An outfit like BestBuy or Wal~Mart or Sears (Canada) or Bay (Hudson's Bay Company, Canada) would easily make this kind of revenue
they would easily turn over 500.000 on a daily basis. possible even hourly. for some reason people seems to think 500.000 is a lot, when its really next to nothing. the 150 man company i work in, turn over 50.000 a day and we arnt exactly big by any means. yes, it excludes your average bedroom or two man company, but those companies cant do anything useful anyway. producing around 1000 amiga compatible motherboards really is irrelevant in creating a userbase or any kind of future to build upon.
personly i would like to see troika and other small companies produce hardware, but under no circumstances will such little scale make or breake anything.
Unfortunately the Amiga etc name is worth nothing apart from as a purchase for retro-emulation on e.g. IBM etc PC clone.
what exactly are you guys basing sentences like this on?
the amiga brand might not be worth anything to a company like ibm, but the operating system sure is. while ibm daily buys up bunches of smaller companies with less relevancy than amiga, other companies could easily turn in millions based on the amiga name. and ibm is just an example. there are bunches of similar companies that would have an interest.
its a matter of keeping things in persepctive. there are a lot of companies similar to ibm that easily could put a couple hundred programmers behind amigaos a couple months to make amigaos fill out a desktop and embedded segment that noone else covers as efficiently.
there isnt any reason to be afraid of multimillion dollar deals or be afraid that amigaos doesnt offer anything. there are plenty of oppotunities and putting down a few million a day is peanuts for any serious buisness.
you are only limited by your own inefficiency, lack of selfconfidence and lack of understanding of how the world turns around and how companies operate.
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