CommodoreUSA CEO Interview Answers

[Digiman]

And this comes down to what each of us thinks an "Amiga" is or should be. We in the Amiga community expect an "Amiga" to provide something of the experience we think of when using our classic Amigas.

But I already gave the bare minimum for what is an Amiga. Linux+UAE/Windows+WinUAE is not an Amiga.

My point is they are no more Amiga than a Dell PC running Linux+UAE/Windws+WinUAE/AROS with the circular Dell badge removed and replaced with a boing ball sticker. Can they run RTG screened/AHI audio enabled system friendly programs natively?

Natively = without UAE except for non-RTG/AHI stuff that needs Amiga chipset. ie what OS4 does.

So the only off the shelf Windows PC on sale you can remotely call NG Amiga is ARESone because it is built for AROS and the 100% working preloaded AROS Broadway achieves that goal. Amiga Mini may/may not even be 100% compatible and is sold only as a Linux x86 box. Amithlon is another option and you still need to buy AmigaOS 3.9 CD.

[Digiman]

Thinking about the car analogy....

New Mustang- looks almost identical, has a lovely V8, handles like a wet track testing session just like the original AND YET it has all new engine/body/interior. Result is nostalgic elders and new generation love it.

What our BS expert is doing is sticking a Mustang badge on a front wheel drive 4 cylinder Ford Focus and charging 100% mark up then calling it the next generation Mustang.

It will flop, why?

1. people who don't care it isn't even an AROS computer won't buy that spec for that price. PCs in that case sell on ebay for half his price.

2. people who would pay a bit extra like us for the name know it looks nothing like any Amiga EVER sold (inc prototypes) in design and is not even running Amithlon/AROS.

C64x is different, case and keyboard were unique and therefore had a novelty appeal looks wise just as an expensive toy to use with WinVICE.

Until an actual replica Amiga case is made nobody but a handful of retards will buy this "BS Amiga"

[orb85750]

A mediocre capitalist who is more removed from the Amiga than anyone else, yet he has the rights to use the trade name.  Sad.

[toRus]

I stopped reading right after the 5th line of the 1st answer. BS.

[wrath of khan]

I read the whole thing and sadly only one fact is now completely apparent.He is quite literally just selling the name 'Amiga' for an exorbitant sum.Anyone could just rebadge a pc and it would be the same exact thing.I really don't see anything of note coming from this company at any point in the future which is made all the more apparent by his answers. I doubt that the name 'Amiga' stuck on a pc is enought to make any headway into the pc market either.These guys will be gone in a short few years.What are they offering over a regular pc to entice new users.So why would anyone want to buy the amiga mini or whatever it's called.Eventually another company might spring up calling themselves commodore and the cycle will continue...

[Kesa]

"The rainbow coloured ticker has huge appeal in the gay
communities, I know this first... hand... after visiting bars and
nightclubs in Amsterdam and San Francisco, wearing nothing
but a... wearing a dark purple T-shirt with huge Amiga ticker on
the chest. Are you considering the market appeal for "Amiga"
and rainbow ticker in the LGBT communities?"

Darrin, what a cute question you asked...   :knuddel:

[haywirepc]

x86 it is, and **** you if you don't agree.

I have to admire their stance as truth in the face of lies and lies and more lies.
Come on *******s, **** fpga, **** powerpc its all dead dead dead.

At least they are on live hardware.

Oh **** I may have drank the cool aid.

Steven.

[Digiman]

I read the whole thing and sadly only one fact is now completely apparent.He is quite literally just selling the name 'Amiga' for an exorbitant sum.Anyone could just rebadge a pc and it would be the same exact thing.I really don't see anything of note coming from this company at any point in the future which is made all the more apparent by his answers. I doubt that the name 'Amiga' stuck on a pc is enought to make any headway into the pc market either.These guys will be gone in a short few years.What are they offering over a regular pc to entice new users.So why would anyone want to buy the amiga mini or whatever it's called.Eventually another company might spring up calling themselves commodore and the cycle will continue...

I also got the impression he thinks C=USA is like Apple. Someone should tell him Apple....

1. Use a bespoke unique in-house exclusive OS.
2. Use a bespoke unique in-house designed case.
3. Offer bespoke unique in-house exclusive services to integrate iPad/iPhone/iPod
4. Were around as a company during the birth of the PET and VCS/2600.

C=USA was just some company that used to import furniture from Asia last decade.

[Forcie]

Pretty much confirmed all prejudice I had against the company. They only care about milking the name, nothing else. Kind of a kick in the groin to all the CUSA fans who tried to claim otherwise.

[Darrin]

"The rainbow coloured ticker has huge appeal in the gay
communities, I know this first... hand... after visiting bars and
nightclubs in Amsterdam and San Francisco, wearing nothing
but a... wearing a dark purple T-shirt with huge Amiga ticker on
the chest. Are you considering the market appeal for "Amiga"
and rainbow ticker in the LGBT communities?"

Darrin, what a cute question you asked...   :knuddel:

Where did he answer that???!!!  

[commodorejohn]

It's also pretty funny how this puts the lie to all the "well, we really do intend to do things you guys'd be interested in, if only you'll fund our ventures by buying our overpriced PC clones" talk...

[klx300r]

let me see yet again, get a bog standard PC and run any Linux distro I want. Put any Amiga logo on it that i want.  Pay 70 percent less than the product being sold by CUSA.

YUP people will be running to buy your computers ONLY when your product is MUCH cheaper than all the other PC's out there.  Your marketing is absolutley ridiculous for a start up company. You don't enter an existing market priced way more expensive than long standing competitors with ZERO to distinguish yourselves from the already crowded PC market....sheesh:rant:

[Darrin]

I might have missed it, but where were the hundreds of thousands of sales to a high street retailer?

Ad company lies again?

[Kesa]

Where did he answer that???!!!  

Towards the bottom.

[Darrin]

Towards the bottom.

Don't give up the day job.  

[Digiman]

The rainbow coloured ticker has huge appeal in the gay
communities, I know this first... hand... after visiting bars and
nightclubs in Amsterdam and San Francisco, wearing nothing
but a... wearing a dark purple T-shirt with huge Amiga ticker on
the chest. Are you considering the market appeal for "Amiga"
and rainbow ticker in the LGBT communities?
That’s funny. Maybe we should create a line of Amiga clothing
especially for them. I’ll talk to our Director of Social Media and get his
take on this.

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