Commodore USA - more delays? You're kidding?

[commodorejohn]

*golf clap*

[commodorejohn]

I suppose I just don't understand hyping a product for a year and THEN figuring out how to make them, or how the parts will be manufactured.
 
Seems like the chicken before the egg dosn't it?
 
Wait we're taking pre-orders and we don't even have the parts here yet?

But you don't understand! Barry is a Real Businessman! Didn't you hear about all the money he's put into this? What more do you need for a project like this than money!? Just have faith and those cases will manifest themselves out of thin air through the sheer power of CASH!

[commodorejohn]

My main point is let them get on with it. There's much worse going on in the world than some guys making a PC that looks like a commodore.

There is indeed - but you slap the douchebag you have, not the one you want. CUSA and their army of zealots have been getting up in our faces for the larger part of a year now, and this is just a bit cathartic.

Also, Disney does not take money for advertising with their products. They are too huge to do something like that, it's all about them.

Yes, so we've gathered. Disney is High and Holy and too noble for cheap hucksterism, and they don't use such grubby tokens of value as money, which is why CUSA's lauded advertising budget is sitting safe and secure in a vault somewhere and the entire "co-branding agreement" doubtless consisted of an impassioned plea by Barry Altman that was so moving as to bring the board of directors to tears...

[commodorejohn]

There is also the fact that they are doing the least work possible while expecting the most attention.

(...)

Also Netami, minimig and others, have all done 25X the work into their respective projects. None of these people are claiming to be the saviors of the sacred name.

This is basically it, for me. People can snob all they want about how NatAmi and the like will never be a commercial success or a serious market contender (because that's totally what matters,) but most Amiga-community projects have involved way more blood, sweat, and tears for way more creative ideas and made far less of a hullaballoo about themselves. Proof once again that the people that toot their own horns the loudest are the ones who'd get nothing but silence otherwise...