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Offline psxphill

Re: Why did commodore went under?
« on: August 10, 2012, 01:17:17 AM »
Quote from: lassie;702796
Hi why do you guys think commodore went under? one must think that all the Commodores and amigas they have sold over the years must have been giving them a lot of money in the bank.

They wasted money because they had no vision and the management were having too much fun playing.
 
Cancelling the a3000+ and turning the a300 into the a600 was just plain ridiculous.
 
The a3000 & a500 plus has already shown the world that commodore were going nowhere. The A2000 & A500 were fine in 1987, but four years later they had basically done nothing. The original A1000 was developed from scratch in that time.
 
For commodore to have survived they really needed something like AGA in 1989.
 

Offline psxphill

Re: Why did commodore went under?
« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2012, 09:11:38 AM »
Quote from: Matt_H;702831
And they probably would have, if management hadn't mucked around with engineering.

In that time frame I don't think management was in control of engineering at all. When that happens you end up with projects like AAA.
 
I'm not convinced that Los Gatos would have been any better if kept around. Second system effect is difficult to avoid.