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Post by c64stuff on Jan 11, 2022 14:24:16 GMT
This one's worth watching or listening to...
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Post by c64stuff on Jan 12, 2022 1:19:22 GMT
By the way, just wanted to emphasize that if you don't realize and appreciate just how groundbreaking and shattering boundaries Commodore was you should really watch or listen in the background to some of these documentaries and interviews.
Jack's philosophy and slogan was that he wanted to bring computers to the masses and not the classes, unlike companies today like Apple (who Jack was crushing on sales) who charge a fortune for a subpar piece of technology. Apple sells a brand and name. Commodore sold value and performance for the money.
He put Texas Instruments out of the computer business just because they were trying to jack up chip prices and thus cost for leading edge computers for the consumer. What we have these days isn't radical progress, it's inflated prices for products. What Jack was doing back then was aggressive thinking out of the box and charging as little as possible for it.
If Commodore hadn't got bottlenecked and ran out of money fighting copyright lawsuits that also by law stopped them from shipping the CD32 to America we might all be talking on Commodore phones right now and playing games on a Commodore Playstation type console. It was a game changing CD based console nobody had seen before.
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