@WolfToTheMoon

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: @Dandy Quote: Where do you take the confidence from that people will jump up and rush to get a plain x86 box with a Commodore label sticked on it? People buy MSI, ASUS, ACER, Toshiba, Sony..., branded "just PCs" over the much cheaper no-name PC stuff.

But will they buy "the the much cheaper no-name PC stuff" at an higher price, just because it is labled "Commodere"?

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: IMHO, Commodore name can easily play level to any of those names.

That's the question.
For me e.g. the "Commodore" name stands for unprecedented mismanagement, arrogance, incompetence and failure.

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: Plus, the C64 community and memory is still very much alive and many of those people(some, what, 20-30 million) might feel nostalgic enough to buy it.

I still fail to see WHY they should buy a system they most likely already have (aside from the form factor).

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: IMHO, why not? Out of those 20-30 million ex C64 users they should be able to sell 50 000 easily,

I'm afraid you're overoptimistic.

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: not counting new comers and those that have to have cool hardware no matter the cost(which will be affordable I'm assured).

Why should I as a newcomer feel inclined to choose a Commodore over any other x86 PC? And no, the label "Commodore" is no decision criterion for me.

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: Quote: This is exactly what I meant - why should I buy an x86 box when I cannot run AmigaOS on it? I already have an x86 XP-PC anyway... It's not marketed at you,

Thank God!


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WolfToTheMoon wrote: but rather at me and mainstream people...

I still have to be convinced that "mainstream people" care for the "Commodore"-sticker at all...

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WolfToTheMoon wrote: that's a market of several hundred million users, rather then several thousand users that AmigaOS is marketed at. ...

While it is certain that these "several thousand AmigaOS users" will run AmigaOS on their new machines (Sam or X1000), it still remains to be seen how many of your "several hundred million users" care for AROS at all.

It may be some feel attracted by the AIO formfactor - but my estimation is that they will be a minority.


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Fixed quoting...

Last edited by Dandy on 06-Sep-2010 at 01:23 PM.

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