OOOOOOO….what could THIS be

[Boudicca]

I just automatically assume anything remotely Amiga news related must be April Fool Bollox!

When CUSA bring back that Amiga Branded Lancaster bomber from the moon that the Sunday Sport newspaper (ironically gone bust today) promised they would, then I might just stretch forward to read the article, otherwise its marketing bollox and nowt else. !

Lets clear up a few CUSA and other X86 and other platform fauxness, if it smells like an x86, works like an x86, made as an x86 and sold from the US of A as an Amiga, I can go down to my local Asda/Walmart buy an x86, load the same bollox and stick an Amiga label on it myself and save on the f*cking import tax and postage without any worries over refunds. So will someone namely Red cos he's closer, tell the owners of the Amiga brand in the US of A to take their f*cking piss pot faux Amiga PCs and Mobile phones and shove them up their ARSES!

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@Wayne and others selling/sold by the CUS of American Dream.

Lets get this pretence of these "added value" only in America product lines, being pushed to a "Global" audience as "World Wide" Amiga computers, when there not.

I don't care if its a mobile/tablet/pc or other goods available through "global sources" as this stuff with a different label is available in the U.K/Europe by much more reliable sources/support lines without the CUSA middle man and without the CUSA Hype and will do exactly the same for less cost. Should we start a branch called EUSA with the selling the same tat, as I am 100% positive there isn't anything here that cannot be copied.

My final beef with all this is the "Title", CUSA know they are an "American" business, their market is "America", no matter what resellers that can be brought on board, the business, the products, the goal is to turn a American business into a global brand using the Commodore and Amiga titles. That's it, end, nothing more....So why the attempt to bring the old community with them, why ?

Nostalgia ! Plain and simple. They are looking to "Sell" to people like me who would say "Oh I used to own an Amiga" without the hassle of building their own brand themselves.

Unfortunately they didn't pick a commodity brand that I seen brought back from the dead in my high street store, they picked a iconic computer brand and worse they try to sell on the basis of that "nostalgia" as a modern "Amiga" like experience.

Its insulting, its a con and its an small fry American computer shop, trying to sell in the "Big" world and frankly its insulting, I will go somewhere local.

When CUSA have a product thats called the "CUSA" something which does something nothing else can do, you might find that the world is a target, otherwise keep to CUSA to your local market and get CUSA the hell off Amiga.org forum.

As the Dragons would say "Its not a business and I am out!".

Shaz

PS Ive been a member for sometime now, if this continual marketing of CUSA continues, I think its time for me to go. I don't see any reason to believe that this just isn't a US lead attempt to scupper any future for a European based Amiga platform(s)

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And here another thought, call it xenophobic but, isn't it ironic, the CUSA is using a brand that the USA Gov. thought was some European based communist infiltration using cheap typewriters. Ironic, that the brand was founded during the suspicion and lies of the MacArthur era, now it receives the same treatment but the lies still sit state-side in both cases.

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Not quite the word that came to my mind.



It`s called the 'McCarthy era'.

Yes, and I wrote the entire post during a migraine attack what's your excuse for 14.5 words of sh*t

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@Boudicca
Any chance you could tone down the vitriol a little?

Sure. Anything for a friend. In the end, it's words, not actions, you should see me when I'm angry, you won't like me when I'm angry

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