Many of the abstract concepts introduced by the Amiga have not been replicated since. All the amazing things we do today we do by brute force. By throwing more clock speed and storage capacity and memory at the problems. Meanwhile, every application developer has to explicitly write—or include a library for—every format they want to support, every codec they want to be compatible with, etc.
Even with all of our gigahertz and gigabytes, we misty-eyed nostalgics know that it could have been so much better, more elegant.
> isn't it fair to say that the Amiga had its day in the 80s and 90s, and that time is now past?
Yes, it's totally fair to say that. But don't mistake all the love letters people write for the Amiga as irrational pining for "the good ole days". There's real substance there, real things that were lost, as vidarh's comment shows.
Even with all of our gigahertz and gigabytes, we misty-eyed nostalgics know that it could have been so much better, more elegant.
> isn't it fair to say that the Amiga had its day in the 80s and 90s, and that time is now past?
Yes, it's totally fair to say that. But don't mistake all the love letters people write for the Amiga as irrational pining for "the good ole days". There's real substance there, real things that were lost, as vidarh's comment shows.