It seems that the X1000 announcement has sent the forum into a timewarp backwards to 2003 or so. I've not seen so much amiga "sectarianism" for a long time.
So, the X1000. It's going to be expensive. We all pretty much understand that. What I don't quite get is why this seems to be such a catalyst for the old Red v Blue nonsense.
I don't think it's all that black and white (or red and blue) now. I don't believe it's all about jealousness, marketing or persuading.
What I feel, that there's much disappointment in the air, which confilcts with enthusiasm. Everyone was waiting something big and well made comeback finally, but things have started to slip in other direction lately.
People would have wanted better prepared presentations, better thought feature and design issues, timeline which doesn't slip, more ready products when brought to public, etc. Something which can be shown at once to big public with an impact which would get some visibility in the mainstream too. Now there's danger that it all can end up like other forgotten half-baked tries in the past and that causes bitter comments on all sides, which can easily be interpreted to something else.
Me as a current MorphOS and classic Amiga user don't have anything against good product from "the other side". Heck, if it would be good enough, it could even attract MorphOS devs to port their OS to it too. And what would be better than new machine capable to run both OSes :-)
MorphOS users are Amiga users by heart and even if the situation is competitive nowadays it still hurts to see our old beloved Amiga name in non-professional attempts, which might even only get some laughs outside the community. Things could get pulled together still, but there's already some damage made for this attempt too.