It's so funny. The exact same thing could be said word-for-word about Ben Hermans and Hyperion/A-eon.
Personally I think Barry is a bit of a huckster. Unless CUSA comes up with something crazily compelling I don't see myself ever buying a CUSA product. But I have to give the guy credit, he's done a lot better job of promoting CUSA than Hyperion and Co. have done. And yet they're both doing essentially the same thing - Hyperion has an Amiga labeled OS, and CUSA has a Commodore (and soon Amiga) labeled computer. But CUSA has been at it less than year as opposed to Hyperion's ten years.
The thing is, the concept behind CUSA is so simple - how can anyone wonder about what the goal is or what drives Barry's decisions? The goal is: take the easiest route to getting some Commodore machines out there. It doesn't matter if it's little more than a familiar looking case and a label, the name Commodore still has resonance. And after that do the same with Amiga. Clearly the objective is to make money, and as for what drives the decisions it's just the easiest route.
It's a damn no-brainer. It really makes me wonder why Hyperion went through (and still is going through) the effort of making yet another Amiga-like OS and some weird-ass proprietary hardware when all they had to do was slap a label on a box. To me the question should be what is the goal of Hyperion and what drives Ben Hermans decisions, because what Hyperion does has no traction.
I've heard that the CUSA TV ads were shown at the meeting, and will air on all the major networks. Once that happens the name Commodore will really be out there in front of a lot of people, many of them who haven't thought about Commodore or the Amiga in well over a decade. Just musing here but what's going to happen when those people start showing up on sites like this and AWN?
Thing is OS4/MOS are PPC binary compatible [with legal Workbench applications] systems. PPC has terrible price/performance.
CUSA is just supplying fancy case [if you're lucky] + C=/Amiga label + Linux version of VICE/UAE emulators.
I can see why people label OS4/MOS machines Amiga, but don't share that opinion. C= USA is not even close with their Intel PC motherboards and emulators combo.
Are people so desperate for 'new' 'Amiga' hardware asto intelligently attribute their PCs as a new genuine Commodore/Amiga computer?
If I wanted a Commodore PC I would have bought a 486 oneinstead of an A1200 in the 90s (the one that looks like A4000D case).
