Commodore Business Machines live again !

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... and are working hard to create compelling new hardware :roflmao:

http://www.commodoresmart.com/

Since they claim to be SMART(tm) this should be fun at least

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Okay , scam confirmed , thank you all

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No idea what that "All rights reserved" means.

http://www.commodorecorp.com/ should hold C=
trademark.

Looking at their site tells what they do with it
just try to browse.

EDIT:
This is the company that designed it :

http://givingshape.blogspot.com/2015/02/commodore-smart-new-concept.html

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Yes , and it's plain black with Android nothing like the ugly
Amiga mouse design but it looks just like regular phone with
C64 Logo engraved on it.

More interesting is to see will it see the light of day considering
they decided to ignore whomever claims Commodore trademark
and are happily going along.I don't think they will make anything
remotely interesting ever though.

Someone who has a Facebook could tell them that handheld C64
like Gameboy would probably be a lot more interesting.

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Yes , I agree with Duce.

What I want to see out of this is will someone fight Aros ROMS that are
used for emulators and if even older copyright troll company with no
products but much legal expertise will be able to prove they are the
rulers of word "Commodore".

As for the phone I'm pretty sure that someone out there will buy it
(power of mass marketing) and I would be even willing to bet that it
will be sold in more than 200 less than 2000 units.

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@Duce

Well if you got a lot of complaints that means you must be
doing something right :roflmao:

I have a friend who is journalist and many a times he would
write inspiring articles about places he never even visited.
Journalists usual response to these kind of things is inviting
person(s) of importance to an interview and if you have two
sides both will claim they are the only one right , reading
between the lines doesn't help there.

There was no confirmation of Aros team helping this in any
way on forums and apart from authors of emulators to be
used these new people declare to be C64 and Amiga fans but
fail to show much facts for it apart from "Commodore is cool -
retweet this".

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Also the fact that some of those press releases have
legal aspects to them but most people try to simplify
them and just want to know "who is Commodore now and
what have they been doing all these years".

Regardless of the phone I like CBM as a company now if
for nothing else a moral principle.It all came down to how
people react to "legal" aspects of things.Some asked for
permissions (where there was no need) , others dropped
projects.If Commodore Corp said they will sue you if you
make T-Shirt you might decide not to but what would you
do if they wanted your house and car instead ? Would you
just hand over keys to whomever ?

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Reverse engineering is allowed in some countries while it's now
allowed in others.Also , depends on what you are reverse engineering ,
if it's patented or copyrighted in US than it's now allowed but was
known to happen.

Fact that Microsoft didn't sue doesn't mean it won't if Windows clone
ever becomes a threat.Press misquoted (as usual) what Cloanto had
to say.Cloanto said that it has nothing to do with CBM and it's emulation
offering.

Important to notice here is that emulators on smartphone are not easily
confused with Amiga or C64 Forever nor are in direct competition.

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To emulate C64 you need BASIC.ROM and KERNAL.ROM at
least so it's pretty much same situation.Some emulators had
replacements (even going so far to state that these files won't
work on real machine for legal reasons).