Their mistake was to take the profit they made with the Amiga line and to put it in the development of their inferior and overpriced x86 PC line - instead of putting it in the development of new cutting edge Amiga products...
Also, the charman and president of Commodore used to be #1 and #2highest paid executive in the computer business, paid more than the top guys at IBM, Apple, Compaq, HP, Dell, or any other computer manufacturer.
Amiga failed because of bad Commodore management,
True enough, but it was mostly bad _American_ management.
Commodore Canada, UK, and Germany sruggled on for quite a while after Commodore US went teats up, but eventually delays by the bankruptcy trustees did them almost all in.
Someone once said that if Commodore was to market Sushi, they would advertise it as Cold, Dead, Raw Fish. There are tales of them starting up an educational sales division and then shutting it down within weeks. The CDTV was barely released to regular Commodore dealers and the regular electronic chains they tried to sell it throough didn't know what they had or how to sell it. The original Media PC and that was something they didn't want to talk about. :roll:
