If you read Commodore: A Company on the Edge by Brian Bagnall you get the view that Commodore really did not have a sense of what their customers wanted. When

If you read Commodore: A Company on the Edge by Brian Bagnall you get the view that Commodore really did not have a sense of what their customers wanted. When the C-128 came out it was sold as a 2 OS system with CP/M being a major push. The question was WHY? By that time the OS was on its last legs and no Commodore customer was asking for it. Yet, they had an R&D department that in theory should have guided them and Jack Tramiel was CEO. They got lucky when they found the Amiga and bought it but given their lack of vision there was no way it had a long term future. Yes Tramiel was gone and R&D was cut but given the fact it never had a plan to move forward they would have had to get lucky again and find a new Amiga to continue. What's funny, even now, many years since the company went bankrupt, I would strongly consider buying a computer from Commodore. Nostalgia makes us do funny things.