Arstechnica: history of the Amiga Part 10

[AJCopland]

The latest installment is up on Arstechnica: "The Downfall of the Amiga"

http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse/2017/01/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-10-the-downfall-of-commodore/

I know we can all nitpick bits and pieces but overall a really good article, one that lays a lot (/all) the blame squarely on Mehdi Ali and Gould.

Andy

[lionstorm]

thx ! a good read, as always from J. Reiner (if I am not mistaken)

[gertsy]

Great read indeed. Very well thought through article.

[polyp2000]

For those (like me) who didnt know about this series till now the following page links to all the installments starting from the beginning :

http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/

[darkage]

cheers, seems like a very good read (:

[Iggy]

"...MOS Technologies (the company that made the legendary 6502 CPU that powered most 8-bit computers)..."

Right...typical inaccuracy from that site.

[Pat the Cat]

The latest installment is up on Arstechnica: "The Downfall of the Amiga"

http://arstechnica.co.uk/the-multiverse/2017/01/a-history-of-the-amiga-part-10-the-downfall-of-commodore/

I know we can all nitpick bits and pieces but overall a really good article, one that lays a lot (/all) the blame squarely on Mehdi Ali and Gould.

Andy

True, it is innaccurate in detail but the real problem was indeed early 90s businesses trying to go truly global.

My imagination points out this as a reasonable representation of the suit mentality American businesses at the time (NSFW, it's Run the Jewels - "Nobody Speak). The actors even RESEMBLE Ali and Gould.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUC2EQvdzmY

Steve Franklin in the UK wasn't that different, and I was glad to see him get fired. His successor tried to get a budget Amiga bullt to replace the C64. America was having none of it, the A600 wasn't a budget Amiga, it was a ripoff Amiga. Putting out CDTV without WB 2.0 was equally, a leach move designed to bleed owners of Commodore computers with built in upgrade necessity. That's just two examples. Notice the guy waving the flag at the end? At the time when Bush Senior was talking "New World Order". And he meant it. There were some great people around, but the leaders were incompetent. Parkinson's law and effect were plain to see.

The Amiga was great, Commodore US corporate and most other nationality's corporate were %&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!%&$#?@!s. That sums it up.

[UberFreak]

"a new chip called “Akiko” that added MPEG 2 movie playback and chunky-to-planar graphics conversion"

Someone REALLY didn't do their research...