CommodoreUSA Partners with Disney

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Although Barry seems to make it sound like it's Disney's idea the fact remains that even if Barry offered to kiss every part of Mickey Mouse's body to get this link it's still a good one.  Nobody will remember that it was a tie in with the movie, it will play in people's heads, Disney endorses Commodore.  It is a well played tactical move.  

Linking Commodore with Disney in anyway makes Commodore look legit.  Face it, Moochie has come a long way from slap C= logo on the site and see who hollers.  There's a reason they signed with a professional marketing company.  Now we begin to see it.

My guess is the next shoe to drop will be a deal with Walmart in the USA.  Remember it's not so much how good your product is as how well you sell it.

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I'm softening, I don't buy pre-assembled PCs at home, and at work we buy Dell and Apple exclusively, so I probably will never even see one of their products, but bringing in Disney, even on one movie endorsement,  puts a seal of approval on C=USA that they can milk for all it's worth.  Whatever it cost them, it was worth it.  After a year of stupidity, it's good to see moochie regained his senses.

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This post SHOULD NOT be in "Amiga News and Community Announcements"

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Cold hearted orb that rules the night
Removes the colours from our sight
Red is gray and yellow, white
But we decide which is right
And which is an illusion

Pinprick holes in a colourless sky
Let insipid figures of light pass by
The mighty light of ten thousand suns
Challenges infinity and is soon gone
Night time, to some a brief interlude
To others the fear of solitude

Brave Helios, wake up your steeds
Bring the warmth the countryside needs

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So Wolf to the Moon is no longer pretending to be an interested bystander?

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Barry appears to be a worthy successor to Jack Tramiel.   Reality doesn't matter, what drive the market is what's in the mind of consumers, Barry is playing to that.  Why would you buy Barry's Chinese stuff over someone else's Chinese stuff.  1) Because it looks different 2) Because it has a story.  A bit quirky, a bit out of the norm.  People like that.  

Is Barry's story real or an illusion?  No one will ever know.  Furniture salesman, satellite TV installer.  Again that could have be Jack.  Like it or not C=USA is a lot like CBM...

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Barry's got a good understanding of marketing.  Look at how he pitches a paid advert on a DVD of a film that frankly didn't make the splash it should have.  It's pitched as "co-branding."  Winning means never having to say you're sorry over any exaggeration...

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Best car analogy?

Tata T603

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What's the price?

Dual core Atom with Ion2 isn't bad for the C64x.  What would you have put in it instead and kept the price about the same?  Remember, the contracts were done months ago.