Since there seems to be a lot of CUSA activity here I thought this might be a good place for a some decent discussion. I've seen recently the C64x has been offered for "pre order" on the Commodore website.
I'm curious as to why a company that has millions of dollars in advertising revenue alone would need to start pre-ordering months in advance, for June in this case, instead of just waiting until they have their product ready to actually deliver.
Well... Apple, which has way more cach also does pre ordering...
Seems curious when they are so obviously tied to a community that is so fraught with a long history of pre-order disasters.
Do you really think CBM-USA is targetting the 1000+ users found in the Amiga "community" (I wouldn't use that term, since in "community" there is "unity" and I don't see any unity here...) ?
That being said, it's not perfect... I'd myself ask why a company spending millions of dollars in advertising has a website run by a 10-years old child... Ridiculous pictures (bad quality, 1996-like gif styles), layout, colors,...
You can use today's tendences while keeping the retro look... But you have to pay someone to do it. Seems like they didn't have the money, or didn't want to do it (maybe they thought anyone could make a nice-looking, intuitive, mordern website and did it themselves...)
