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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #104 from previous page: March 03, 2011, 03:46:44 AM »
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Agreed.

But in order to support the development of a "custom" OS they need a stronger business model than the one they are currently presenting. Sales based on nostalgia isn't going to be enough to drive that kind of development.

Only time will tell...


Depends on which line your talking about.  C64x?  Vic series?  Amiga series?  If your talking nostalgia for Amiga series, your quiet correct, there isn't any to tap into for the number of unit sales Barry is looking for.  That will require something more special with excellent marketing.  

For right now, just watch what happens with the C64x as that is the first product line to get the full effort.  Vic and Amiga series will follow afterwards but you should be able to tell how it will all be done using C64x's launch as a benchmark.
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #105 on: March 03, 2011, 05:09:24 AM »
@ Dammy

Still waiting for the answer... Was it eXfuze or AROS you were distributing... :D
 

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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #106 on: March 03, 2011, 05:16:00 AM »
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Baby steps, Persia...baby steps.  Dammy has a lot on his mind to go looking too deeply at the glorious twists and turns that are linux distributions.


Then you tell me exactly what C=USA is planning.
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #107 on: March 03, 2011, 05:17:10 AM »
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@ Dammy

Still waiting for the answer... Was it eXfuze or AROS you were distributing... :D


You are being a lazy git.  Go hunt the answer down like a good little stalker, I am not doing the work for you.
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #108 on: March 03, 2011, 05:19:58 AM »
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Then you tell me exactly what C=USA is planning.


They're planning to rip as many gullible folk off as they can by selling an off the shelf parts PC running an emulator at (most likely) ridiculous prices and adding the various brand names to make it look legit...:D
 

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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #109 on: March 03, 2011, 05:24:54 AM »
You know, I think this is the only conversation that actually has anything to do with the Commodore in this thread. ;)

ANyhoo, I wrote the guy, thankx for the link!

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And it will work with MESSIAH too...

Read over the site, email the guy, he does PayPal, pretty reasonable I think.

To hook back into the subject if there's one still left, I think we are doing pretty good without a true mothership company, just look around. I think decentralized community / platform(s) is what will work, and be fun.
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #110 on: March 03, 2011, 05:38:21 AM »
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Then you tell me exactly what C=USA is planning.


WELL, then!  Lemme tell ya!  They are planning on arriving way late to every party.  The whole PC clone market was done back in the early 2000s.
 

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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #111 on: March 03, 2011, 08:38:44 AM »
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They're planning to rip as many gullible folk off as they can by selling an off the shelf parts PC running an emulator

Thats better than ripping gullible folk off with parts that aren't even good enough to be put on the shelf to be put in a PC.
 
As PC hardware is at the cutting edge & is the cheapest, it would seem financial suicide to do anything else (see X1000).
 
Alienware seem to do quite a good job of selling an off the shelf parts PC for a lot of money.
 

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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #112 on: March 03, 2011, 08:47:48 AM »
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Thats better than ripping gullible folk off with parts that aren't even good enough to be put on the shelf to be put in a PC.
 
As PC hardware is at the cutting edge & is the cheapest, it would seem financial suicide to do anything else (see X1000).
 
Alienware seem to do quite a good job of selling an off the shelf parts PC for a lot of money.


No knowing who or what "Alienware" was I googled it... :eek:

If they can sell PCs at those prices then my beliefs have just been confirmed, folk who buy such PCs are either gullible, naive, rich, not very bright, just plain stupid or any combination of these... :D
 

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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #113 on: March 03, 2011, 01:22:00 PM »
Hmm... is there a point in having that "report" button here, kinda pointless removing the pathetic remark made by Dummy_2 about Dammy in the other thread and leaving this one here (post 112). reported it a couple of hours ago but it's still there... :(

(maybe it's something to with the lack of mods around here these days, some of them seem to have fallen off the edge of the earth... :))

(thank you (whomever) for removing that very offensive post... :))
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #114 on: March 03, 2011, 02:15:43 PM »
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Depends on which line your talking about.  C64x?  Vic series?  Amiga series?  If your talking nostalgia for Amiga series, your quiet correct, there isn't any to tap into for the number of unit sales Barry is looking for.  That will require something more special with excellent marketing.


Until a new business model emerges, they will still be subject to criticism they are receiving now. And, honestly, I can't think of any model in this day and age that can. I doubt, for example, that Barry's funds are any where near that of Google's.
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #115 on: March 03, 2011, 02:37:27 PM »
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Until a new business model emerges, they will still be subject to criticism they are receiving now. And, honestly, I can't think of any model in this day and age that can. I doubt, for example, that Barry's funds are any where near that of Google's.

we'll see once the sales start.

I think C-64x and VIC-Book will do very fine.

New business model isn't needed because the current one hasn't yet been tested.
 

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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #116 on: March 03, 2011, 02:42:16 PM »
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Until a new business model emerges, they will still be subject to criticism they are receiving now. And, honestly, I can't think of any model in this day and age that can. I doubt, for example, that Barry's funds are any where near that of Google's.


I doubt Barry's funds are even anywhere near those of Franko's ebay account.
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #117 on: March 03, 2011, 02:43:45 PM »
Android on the Desktop?  Might actually make sense, especially with a All-in-one like the HP Touchsmart.

But it's hard to see what party C=USA wouldn't be late to.  Introducing new desktops in the beginning year of the tablet wars.  Introducing media pcs in the year of internet TVs, etc.
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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #118 on: March 03, 2011, 03:02:11 PM »
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I doubt Barry's funds are even anywhere near those of Franko's ebay account.


Ere... how do you know how much dosh I've been spending on evilBay lately, (I've been hacked by Nickerlass...) :eek:

Even had a phone call from the bank on Tuesday they were about to freeze my accounts cos they thought someone had stole my details and gone on a spending spree... :)
 

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Re: Workbench 5 renamed Commodore OS
« Reply #119 on: March 03, 2011, 03:19:29 PM »
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we'll see once the sales start.

I think C-64x and VIC-Book will do very fine.

New business model isn't needed because the current one hasn't yet been tested.


So exactly, IF C64/VIC do good (no reason why they shouldn`t, no reason why they should either as there are many PCs in many nice cases) THEN CUSA Amiga will be launched at all ELSE everything will be wapor as usual. Tan and see
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