CommodoreUSA Partners with Disney

[Darrin]

http://disney.go.com/tron/index_flash.html#/partners

I guess this should be enough of a proof for those still thinking it's April 1st?

OK, so Sylvania are making the lights for the power button, ESET have promised to help Barry hack websites to steal images, Spin Master are going to help make up more C-USA lies, Crest and Oral B are going to help cover up the smell of BS whenever there is a C-USA announcement of an actual product, MDG Computers are taking the opportunity to look like pros next to the amatures and Cola Zero are the boys from da hood who supply the cocaine being snorted by C-USA employees.  

[Darrin]

One more question, and a serious one:

Who the hell are "Spin Master", "MDG" (I had to look them up to make my previous comment and I first thought they were the UN's Millennium Development Goals) and "ESET"?

[Darrin]

Nah, Coca-Cola is advising them on how to take a beloved product and ruin it trying to cater to an impossibly broad market. I wonder if they'll cover the subsequent "hasty backtracking and ass-covering" part?

Looking at the menu, am I correct in assuming that you only get to see this ad if you're one of the 0.000001% of people who accidently click on the obscure "Partners" tab because you've mistaken it for something that might hold some "extras" of interest, say nude pictures of Oliva Wilde?

[Darrin]

Yes, you are correct...

However, if you buy a Tron Legacy disc you will receive, in the box



this printed add.


This is just the beginning. There are more marketing and technology deals to come

I still don't get the direction of the company, or the reasoning behind the product line, but I hope that someone doesn't lose a small fortune here because there could have been other projects such has bringing the FPGA to market in mass for Xmas that could really generate some cash.

[Darrin]

Well don't forget to sell your TV, the C=USA/Disney adds will be hitting shortly on the major networks.  Don't want you to gag on your dinner or anything.  :banana:

I think you mean the Disney ads (with a small C= logo in the corner that you'll miss if you blink), surely?

[Darrin]

Yes...
Though, if you do order, you're likely to wait for a few weeks as they have sold almost the entire first production run to large retailers.

Do you mean big companies or fat local business owners?  

[Darrin]

Don't know exactly, but I know that at least one of those has a global business reach

MikeJ?  I thought he was busy making FPGA Arcades!

[Darrin]

No, C=USA network TV ads with Disney's Tron Legacy included.

OK, you mean the little home made ads that you can put on local TV channels for a couple of grand and C= are just sticking the Tron stuff in the corner.  Nothing seriously involving Disney other than they took some cash for it.  Correct?

I need to explain for European readers that the US Networks (ABC, NBC, FOX, etc) are syndicated between each and every city where they get show show adverts locally produced in certain segments between programmes.  These are not "million dollar ad", but the local second hand car dealer, the local coffee shop, the local bar, etc putting on a cheap ad for a couple of grand and are only viewed in those particular cities that they pay for (which is why they are so cheap).

[Darrin]

Don't know exactly, but I know that at least one of those has a global business reach

Actually, I bet it is AmigaKit and you've convinced them to make the product available on their (International) Websites!  

[Darrin]

They hadn't started production 5 days ago, but it's going to be for sale in 3 days?

They're only making 5 of them and each one comes with a "company position".

[Darrin]

To tell you the truth, I personally do not know what OS is going to be the base for COS.  You can make a stab at it, but I'd hold off betting the family farm on it.

It is a rather sad business that doesn't allow their PR Reps to know what they're trying to push.

[Darrin]

You know Dammy and I predicted this sort of over the top venom and rage months ago. If you are getting this angry now, you really might want to turn off the monitor and go on vacation for a couple weeks because you will have a complete and total meltdown soon.

You would think someone from CUSA kicked your pregnant wife in the stomach or tried to burn down your church. Really people THIS IS A COMPUTER, NOT A RELIGION. Nothing can change what Jay Miner and the original Amiga team accomplished. The amiga-like variants of MorphOS, AROS, OS4 etc will continue to exist. If you have no use for the product and don't get it, you don't buy it. I don't get this end of the world reaction at all.

If you predicted the "rage" months ago then why did you continue with the plan to bastardize the Amiga name with this non-Amiga product?

Nobody would be upset if it was a range of "Commodore" branding products covering PCs, Android Tablets, Emulator packages, etc.  It is hi-jacking of the Amiga name which is still alive and kicking and plastering it on non-Amiga products for apparently no other reason than sticking it to Hyperion.  Was this part of the agreement with Amiga Inc?

[Darrin]

Oddly, the world didn't end when Commodore introduced the Colt. Think of it like that.

http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/cpcs.html

Probably because they didn't put an "Amiga" sticker on it.

[Darrin]

Karma is a bee-atch, maybe this is the lowlife vermin Benjamin Hermans reaping what he has sown......

I can't see why we have to suffer though.  

[Darrin]

So this whole rage thing is about protecting Hyperion?

No, it is about using the "Amiga" name to describe actual "Amiga" products and not a linux PC running UAE or some tablet with a checkered wallpaper.  If it is this difficult for you to understand then this will end up being a very short and very expensive business venture.

You've pissed off actual Amiga users so they're not going to buy.  You're also going to piss off old Amiga users who end up thinking "what does this shit have to do with my old miggy?".  Way to go.