Yeah, maybe I'm the lone guy that found it "odd" that a 30 million dollar ad budget is now suddenly pinned on the ad agency. Just like how I found it odd the claims of being partners with Disney and everyone else, and now C-USA is being portrayed as "a small company that made some mistakes".
No, lol. You can't have it both ways, you can't put on the big boy pants and be condescending towards the entire community for YEARS, saying you are gunning for Apple, then flip the switch and be the little guy, trying to eek out an existance while gladhanding false apologies.
You're not alone in the least - I just thought it was so blatantly obvious as to be unworthy of mention. But, you know, just for the sake of clarity:
Duce is absolutely right. CUSA's varying claims of being both the Next Big Thing and somehow also a struggling little startup are a crock of shít. They don't have the $30 million advertising budget they claimed (and just like the factory pictures, even if it's true that it was bad information on the part of a third party,
which I greatly doubt, CUSA were the ones to pass it on without verifying.) They don't have contracts for hundreds of thousands of sales in major retail chains (and that was all Barry, not some tidbit of misinformation he didn't bother to check.) They're not poised to take down the local PC repair shop in the next strip mall over from theirs, let alone Apple. First they try to claim business savvy and mighty connections in an attempt to impress; now that they've not only failed to impress, but actively alienated the only community who would've been interested in their products to begin with, they try to play the sympathy card and be the Scrappy Little Underdog that
just needs a chance! to make good and win the hearts and minds of the community. It's all a front, trying to spin things as whatever they think might be to their advantage and desperately hoping that nobody in the community has a memory longer than three months. Guess what, Barry,
we do.
And frankly, even if they
weren't spinning this, what would it matter? Even if they're a scrappy underdog company that's "made some mistakes" and just wants to make up for getting off on the wrong foot, they're still a company making comically overpriced, mediocre PC clones and labeling them with the name of a company and a computer with which they have absolutely
nothing in common, in an attempt to sell to the people who loved the completely unrelated original. That's inane at best and dishonest at worst; why should we
want to give them another chance? Once was enough!
