rest of the industry moves at amazing speeds these days, and the Amiga scene is just too small and primitive to be able to keep up, never mind regain a leading position.
It's not hard to be ahead of the pack, and provide unique value at the edges.
It's not that Microsoft or even Mac, for that matter, could be the leader in say 'metadata services'...to make up one area...
but they won't because they are a generic vendor, they have to make carefully weighted decisions about how to advance, and yet, not confuse or upset their very conservative target audience, who doesn't really want radical changes.
The point being....while being small is a disadvantage, it also has an advantage of sorts.
The key to amiga's success is to realize where it excels, and where it can only fail, and to concentrate on winning.
In a way, you sense this sort of pragmatism, when the community leaders talk about concentrating on embedded markets, and kiosks, etc.
However....I'll believe that when I see it. What the Amiga market, does have, is demonstrable market demand for a desktop solution in a kind of hobbyist, cult market. If they cannot capitalize on that natural market (and so far they have not)...then I question whether they can capitalize on any market, especially the markets they say they are going after, which are much more competitive than our little cult sphere.
What most people here want, is not a product that is in every way superior to mac, windows, linux, but just a product that has enough unique value, that our positions have some justification and that the amiga platform is a contribution and relevant to modern computing.
Many people here have the talent to take the amiga there, to concentrate on a specialized area and make it applicable.
but I do share your pessimism in once aspect: that success isn't actually going to happen.
