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Posted on 09-Apr-2004 15:53 GMT by Christophe Decanini6 comments
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Amiga had its golden age in the late 80's to early 90's. There are some interesting sales figures in a thread on Amiga.org.
Someone pointed out to this page giving the Personal Computer market share from 1975 to 2002 (Including the Amiga, Atari, Commodore, Apple II).
There is also this page giving recent figures on google usage by platfom (Unfortunately Amiga is in the "other" category). It looks that in 1991 Amiga reached 5% of the market share.
1.000.000 units sold in 2004 would represent less than 1% of the market share.
Just to give an idea on how the current sales figures of the Pegasos or Amigaone compares: They are actualy around 500 times less (less than 0.002 % of the market).
The desktop market is completely dominated by Microsoft. The alternative systems (including Apple and linux Desktops) have 5-6%.
Surprisingly (at least for me) Linux is almost invisible on the graphs.
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Posted by EyeAm on 09-Apr-2004 18:31 GMT
It, of course, must be pointed out that the 'Amiga' on that page refers to Amiga machines, coupled with the OS. These days--duh!--Amiga isn't making computers (ok, so it's not even making its OS, hehe).

IF they wanted to rectify the problem (snores...wakes up)...Amiga OS would be put on IBM PC / clones (yawns), and the OS would be 64-Bit.

Since people can zero-in on an easily-remembered name, it shouldn't be too much of a wonder why "Commodore 64" sold well, and MAC sold well... as oppposed to some AX-DZ101 SE whatever-model-of-the-month. Heh. Therefore (yawns again) Amiga64 could've been a cool machine ;-) (64-Bit, of course).

Alas, they all shot everything into the fan, which was on high speed at the time, so people will be picking up crap for years. (goes back to sleep)

--EyeAm
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