CommodoreUSA CEO Interview Answers

[fishy_fiz]

I didnt read the rest of the thread, but it he's basically said:

 "We're doing nothing other than trying to milk some sales with the commodore and amiga names. We have nothing interesting technology wise. Both software and hardware are from other people. We have no interest in the amiga. We have no real idea what it is that people become attached to, heck we dont even really understand the machine and OS so we're going to pump something out for name followers."

Bit of a shame, the amiga deserves to be something other than a recognisable brand name. In it's heyday the Amiga was successful on its own meritts and not the name attached to it. Even Commodore, as silly as they were at times recognised this.
At the end of the day I dont care too much, it's not exactly a secret this is the route they were taking. My only concern is that it makes it harder for the systems we all follow (classics/os4/aros/mos) to attract more attention. I have no doubts that in the near future there'll be confusion on places like OSnews as to what an amiga based system is. There'll be plenty of people who end up just assuming its a linux based OS, ergo of no interest to them.
Having said this though, there appear to be new users and devs arriving daily in AROS-land, even despite the potential confusion C-USA are helping to generate. "Amiga" fans know what they liked about the amiga/amiga os, and theyre the same things they'll find with aros/os4/mos, but lacking in C-USA amiga branded systems.

Remove the ahead of the curve games, graphics, software that attracted so many people to the amiga back in its heyday (mainstream users) all that's left if the OS. This is only of interest to a small portion of users, and a lot of the users that are interested are informed enough to know what theyre getting into (not just name followers)

[fishy_fiz]

Third, The Amigas they "produce" have nothing to do with Amiga, there is absolutely no resemblance, neither runs an Amiga OS, you can't use old hardware or software on any of them.  The only thing they have in common is the name.  And guess what, they're using it so they can sell it to nostalgic suckers like you guys, and you're chugging the bait down like there's no tomorrow.

I hope some of you get the chance to read this post before the C=USA sponsored Amiga.org removes it.

While some of what you said I more or less agree with, this last paragraph is a bit baffling.
Which Amiga.org have you been reading for the last few years? It definately doesnt sound like the one Ive been using. There's pretty much no-one who's buying into what C-USA are selling. In fact despite having no interest in them the over the top anti C-USA sentiment that's so prominent here gets a bit tiring (as does any over the top sentiment).

[fishy_fiz]

That may (or may not) be the case, but it doesnt mean people are buying it, which is what you said. Pretty much every C-USA thread here shows what people think of them and thier products, and its not flattering to C-USA.